The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

Not the why but the what.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.