How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.