You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.