I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.