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).

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.