When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

A cat has absolute honesty.

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

Write drunk; edit sober.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.