That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
Drinking is a way of ending the day.
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.