This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.