The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Accepting Nobel Prize, 1962
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
Time is the only critic without ambition.
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.