Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

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

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.