The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

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.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.