A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

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