Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for the lunch bell. I wish them well. They have, however, never been the subjects of novels, and in all likelihood, will never be.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.