Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.