The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
Not the why but the what.
Hunger is good discipline.
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.