Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.