And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
Most people never listen.
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.