Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.