He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.