Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.