Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

Try to be better than yourself.

I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.