I'm wondering what to read next.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.