Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

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.