I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit-detector.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway: Good pictures, what camera do you use? Irving Penn: What typewriter do you use?
We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
All thinking men are atheists.