I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

War is not won by victory.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

I am always in love.