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.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?