 I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. |
| 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. |
| Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. |
| Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. |
| We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. |
| Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. |
| Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. |
| 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. |
| For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. |
| Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. |
| 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. |
| No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. |
| 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. |
| There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. |
| The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. |
| The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. |
| It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. |
| I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. |
| As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. |
| Courage is grace under pressure. Topics: Courage |
