If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

Golf always makes me so damned angry.

I thought men like that shot themselves.