Hunger is good discipline.
Heresy is the foe of countenance
He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.
He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.
He was completely detached from every thing except the story he was writing and he was living in it as he built it. The difficult parts he had dreaded he now faced one after another and as he did the...
He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I sin?
Half a million dead wopsAnd he got a kick out of itThe son of a bitch.
Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died f...
But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.
Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.
Be patient, hand, he said. I do this for you.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
یک مرد. یک مرد تنها نمیتواند. هیچ مردی تنها نمیتواند. فرق نمیکند چهجور. یک مرد تنها هیچ مهلت خواهر ج***ای ندارد.