What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.