Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.