The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.