I'm not a philosopher.

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.