There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

My big fish must be somewhere.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.