A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
What is writing but an expression of my own life?
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.