Essential Characteristic Of The Really Great Novelist:

Literature Exists So That Where One Man Has Lived Finely Ten Thousand May Afterward Live Finely

I Don't Read My Reviews, I Measure Them.

It Is Well, When Judging A Friend, To Remember That He Is Judging You With The Same Godlike And Superior Impartiality.

Journalists Say A Thing That They Know Isn't True, In The Hope That If They Keep On Saying It Long Enough It Will Be True.

You Wake Up In The Morning, And Lo! Your Purse Is Magically Filled With Twenty-four Hours Of The Unmanufactured Tissue Of The Universe Of Your Life! It Is Yours. It Is The Most Precious Of Possessions. No One Can Take It From You. It Is Unstealable. And No One Receives Either More Or Less Than You Receive.