Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would ra…

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering t…