You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

Never mistake motive for action.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.