Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave a leaf in water a long time after awhile the tissue will be gone and the delicate fibres waving slow as the motion of sleep. They don't touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones.

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

Read, read read. Read everything.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.