I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

But did thee feel the earth move?

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.