It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.