The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

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

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.