The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.