One cat just leads to another.

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

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).