A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Loving someone who doesn't love themselves is like farting for someone whose sense of smell doesn't exist

You don't look well, " he pronounced."Indigestion, " I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.

That's what you think of me, is it, girl?" said his lordship, a glint in his

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.