1. “The artists doesn’t have time to listen to critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews; the ones who want to write, don’t have time to read .”
2. “The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.”
3. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
4. “Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.”
5. “I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.”
6. “Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.”
7. “Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.”
8. “Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.”
9. “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practise it.”
10. “Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
11. “A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
12. “Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.”
13. “History is not was, it is.”
14. “Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”
15. “It’s always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.”
16. “The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.”
17. “The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in seeking of it.”
18. “Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
19. “The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”
20. “No battle is ever won… victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
21. “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.”
22. “A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.”
23. “No man can cause more grief than one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.”
24. “Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.”
25. “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
26. “It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.”
27. “You have to write badly in order to write well.”
28. “A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.”
29. “Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.”
30. “A man is the sum of his misfortunes.”
