Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.