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.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
