If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you