I Have Assiduously Avoided Calling My Books

The Relationship Between Reader And Characters Is Very Difficult. It Is Even More Peculiar Than The Relationship Between The Writer And His Characters.

I Don't Have Any Style.

Cigars Must Be Smoked One At A Time, Peaceably, With All The Leisure In The World. Cigarettes Are Of The Instant, Cigars Are For Eternity.

You Are Just In The Middle Of A Struggle With Words Which Are Really Very Stubborn Things, With A Blank Page, With The Damn Thing That You Use To Write With, A Pen Or A Typewriter, And You Forget All About The Reader When You Are Doing That

But I Do Not Have The Reader In Mind When I Write. No True Writer Does That