What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish..

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing..

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us a….

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I w….

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed..

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't la….

You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently..

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones..

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows..

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequen….

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another..

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything..

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help….

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make..

WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. Thi….

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time..

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense..

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what yo….

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.You could claim that it's due to my military experience. But it….

It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen..

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no furth….