All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?