The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

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.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.