There are only two absolutes I know about writing: one is that if you make love while you are jamming on a novel, you are in danger of leaving the best parts of it in the bed; the other is that integrity in a writer is like virginity in a woman - once lost, it is never recovered. I am always being asked about my 'credo' - Christ, that word - well, credo is to write as well as I can about things that I know and feel deeply about.引自 The Riviera 1954
