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

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.