"I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works."
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
"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."
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."