1. “Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
2. “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
3. "If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
4. “I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.”
5. “It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.”
6. "It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
7. “My father was often angry when I was most like him.”
8. “Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.”
9. “Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.”
10. “People change and forget to tell each other.”
11. "Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
