- If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. »
- Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . . »
- 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. »
- Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. »
- Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. »
- Never confuse movement with action. »
- Time is the least thing we have. »
- Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. »
- The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits. »
- 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. »
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