There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

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.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

They arrested us after breakfast.