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 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.
Drinking is a way of ending the day.
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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.
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.
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.