When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

If a writer : knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows:. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of…

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at nig…