Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.