I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.