Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

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.

Did you ever have a sister? did you?

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

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

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