If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.