Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.