The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.