1. “Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.”
2. “To say good bye is to die a little.”
3. “Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
4. “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
5. “If you believe in an idea, you don’t own you, it owns you.”
6. “In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.”
7. “If you’re not tough it’s hard to survive in this world; and if you’re not kind then you don’t deserve to survive.”
8. “A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
9. “A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
10. “Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just a embroidered potholder.”
11. “Most people go through life using half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had.”
12. “There are two kinds of truth: The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science and the second is art.”
13. “The more you reason the less you create.”
14. “A really good detective neve gets married.”
15. “Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it.”
