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

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

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.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.