"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."