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

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.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Courage is grace under pressure.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.