"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."
"There is no finish to a war."
"There is no finish to a war."
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
"Courage is grace under pressure."
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened."
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
"Never mistake motion for action."
"The definition of courage is grace under fire."
"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
"You lose it if you talk about it."
"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone."
"Never mistake motion for action."
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly in the only heritage he has to leave."
"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."
"All our words from lose using have lost their edge."
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone."
"In order to write about life, first you must live it!"
"The definition of courage is grace under fire."
"One cat just leads to another."
"So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
"Never mistake motion for action."