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.

Hunger is good discipline.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.