who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.