I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.