You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn.
War is not won by victory.
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
Hunger is good discipline.
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
