You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.