The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.