That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.

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.

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.