In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.