It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?
The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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.
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.