A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

There is no rule on how to write.

Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.