You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist’s point of view or the writer’s conscience.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don’t put too much trust in them.

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.