Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.