If a writer : knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows:. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at nig…

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.