In A Novel, It's Hard To Keep

I'm Not As Hopeful As I Was When I Was Young

Horror Would Not Annoy A Soldier Any More Than The Sight Of A Hammer Annoys A Carpenter. It Is Sentimental To Pretend That Horror Is Not The Tool Of The Soldier, Just As The Hammer Is The Tool Of The Carpenter. We Live Off Death And The Threat Of Death And We Must Take It Calmly And Use It Well.... Eventually I Came To Enjoy Killing, As A Pianist Enjoys The Czerny Which Keeps His Fingers Limber For The Beethoven.

No Writer Need Feel Sorry For Himself If He Writes And Enjoys It, Even If He Doesn't Get Paid.

The Last Paragraph In Which You Tell What The Story Is About Is Almost Always Best Left Out.

Curiously, The United States Is Full Of Writers Who Have One Big Work In Their Life And That's All.