I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.