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

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

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

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

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