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.

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

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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.