My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Art is anything you can get away with.