I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.