In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.