It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

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.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

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

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.