Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.