I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

The book belongs to the author.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.

Your lifestyle shows who your father is

To be God’s heartbeat is to be an answer to his need

Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

No longer will we tolerate one job killing delay after another. No longer will we accept a broken system that benefits consultants and lobbyists at the expense of hardworking Americans.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!

I have my way of doing things.