The first draft of anything is sh*t.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.