Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

In America the race goes to the loud the solemn the hustler. If you think you're a great writer you must say that you are.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart given surnames and Christian names and sent to walk the earth.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day rather than a sex symbol.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

I think young writers should get other degrees first social sciences arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.