When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.'(on Ernest Hemingway.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.