A Gun Is Like Breath To A

I Loved Her Like A Rabbit Loves A Rattlesnake

A Lot Of Novelists Start Late-conrad, Pirandello, Even Mark Twain. When You're Young, Chess Is All Right, And Music And Poetry. But Novel-writing Is Something Else. It Has To Be Learned, But It Can't Be Taught. This Bunkum And Stinkum Of College Creative Writing Courses! The Academics Don't Know That The Only Thing You Can Do For Someone Who Wants To Write Is To Buy Him A Typewriter.

I Make No Conscious Effort To Be Tough, Or Hard-boiled, Or Grim, Or Any Of The Things I Am Usually Called.

New York Is Not Even A City, It's A Congerie Of Rotten Villages.

They Threw Me Off The Haytruck About Noon.