You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

My big fish must be somewhere.

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.