I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.