What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
Everybody's got their troubles.
[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.