It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then, after the war, it became one among half a dozen world cities. Today it has the appearance of standing alone, as the center of culture in the part of the world that still tries to be civilized.

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.