Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similies (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the…

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damne…