Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.