I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

The writer works in a lonely way.

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written