There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is