"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."
"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."