In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.