There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.