Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.