To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

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.

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

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

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

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.