Write what you like; there is no other rule.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York