“Man is not made for defeat.”
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
“Never confuse motion with action.”
“There is no friend as loyal as a book”
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.”
“I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”
“There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.”
“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”
“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
“I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.”
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
“The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end”
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
“Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.”
“I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”