Novelist

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

What is art but a way of seeing?

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.