writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harasse….

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color..

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss..

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far..

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to..

Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a….

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?.

Family. A snug kind of word..

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of b….

Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of….

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war..

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificnes….

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he sho….

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it..

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and….

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home..

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster..

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not..

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not..

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book..

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad ma….