Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.