Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.

I hate writing, I love having written.