"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
"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."
"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"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."
"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."