"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
"I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"The first draft of anything is shit."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."