When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is...
We are very serious so we can make very strong jokes.
Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles and chronicles and seen the Brady
They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorr...
There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with t...
There is a hollow empty feeling that a man can have when he is waked too early in the morning that is almost like the feeling of disaster and he had this multiplied a thousand times.
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've had just as good a life as grand...
The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.
The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did...
That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went...
That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIODo you have bad luck with all games?With everything and with women. He smiled again, showng his bad teeth.Truly? -TrulyAnd what is there to do?-Continue, slowly, and wai...
Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining.
Remember, everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong. - You think so? - I’m quite sure. If you don’t it doesn’t matter. Nothing will matter then
Oh, don't go to hell, I said. Stick around. We're just starting lunch.
Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small ani...