Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.