I want to F. Scott Fitzgerald. An autobiography, written by me.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.

[About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.

An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.