I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.
There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.