Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.

I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.