Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.