Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.