There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

Life is serious but art is fun!

I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a second or third draft I wrote insert pages on a typewriter. But I got rid of all my typewriters about three or four novels ago and now I do everything by hand. I write by hand because it makes me go slow and going slow is what I like.

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.