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

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.