To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

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