Write hard and clear about what hurts.
Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
However you make your living is where your talent lies.
Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.
Every true story ends in death.
The writer’s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are.
All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify their members as failures.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice.Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Writing is a hard business, but nothing makes you feel better
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Easy reading is hard writing.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.
