A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.