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

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

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.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.