New York Is Not Even A City,

I Make No Conscious Effort To Be Tough, Or Hard-boiled, Or Grim, Or Any Of The Things I Am Usually Called. I Merely Try To Write As The Character Would Write, And I Never Forget That The Average Man, From The Fields, The Streets, The Bars, The Offices And Even The Gutters Of His Country, Has Acquired A Vividness Of Speech That Goes Beyond Anything I Could Invent, And That If I Stick To This Heritage, This Logos Of The American Countryside, I Shall Attain A Maximum Of Effectiveness With Very Little Effort.

Writing A Novel Is Like Working On Foreign Policy. There Are Problems To Be Solved. It's Not All Inspirational.

New York Is Not Even A City, It's A Congerie Of Rotten Villages.

If Your Writing Doesn`t Keep You Up At Night, It Won`t Keep Anyone Else Up Either".

Stealing A Man's Wife, That's Nothing, But Stealing His Car, That's Larceny.