It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

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

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

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

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.