I always write a story in one sitting.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

You waste life when you waste good food.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.