What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude!

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window

When you say something to the mother, she wants to fist-fight you, ... I just wish something could be done.