An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.