It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

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

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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

Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.