I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.

Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.