No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Live it up so you can write it down.

I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.