Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

How little we know of what there is to know.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.