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

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.