There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

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.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.