1. "A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled."
2. ”Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”
3. “Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.”
4. “From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
5. ”If you believe in an ideal, you don't own you, it owns you.”
6. ”She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”
7. “Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.”
8. “The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.”
9. "The more you reason the less you create."
