I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.