Quotes on Crafts

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.