It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.