Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

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

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.