Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.