Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.
I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?