Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
Summer is a discouraging time to work – you don’t feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
Night is always darkest before the dawn, and life is the same. The hard times will pass; everything will get better and the sun will shine brighter than ever.
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.
You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood.
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.