He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!