Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.