First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. The….

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need ….

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book..

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If no….

I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a matter of wanting f….

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures..

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much..

A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire….

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age..

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as….

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you..

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will..

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood..

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.