"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
"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."
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."