If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.