Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

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

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

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.