Who said “Writers are always selling somebody out.”?

“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”

“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”

“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.”

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.”

“Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.”

“The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.”