If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

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.

I like any place that isn't here.

I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

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.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.