I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.