Novel writing wrecks homes.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.