Easy writing makes hard reading.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

War is not won by victory.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.