The writer works in a lonely way.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

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

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.