“Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder — and turn quickly to my typewriter.”

“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”

“Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.”

“In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.”

“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!”

“I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.”

“That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.”

“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

“I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.”