People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.