There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.