A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.