The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.