A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

He who can endure the worst can withstand any thing.

Patience, beautiful, " he uttered in a low tone.

The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking.

If you are too proud, you don't do business.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

There's a new sexy boy now!