The challenge is to write about real things magically.

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

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.

Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.