"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 love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"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."
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."