The writer's job is to tell the truth.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.