Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.