When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.