“I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

“You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

“I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

“Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day’s work.”

“It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil”

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

“I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”