Que cosan las rajas, yo entro por los ojos.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

While I had been angry I had demoted him from Scott to Fitzgerald

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.