When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!