“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.”

“Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.”

“Don't write about Man; write about a man.”

“As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.”

“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.”

“I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”

“There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.”