Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.