No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

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 when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you