Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.