Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.