"There are two kinds of stories, the..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.”

“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.”

“Not the why but the what.”

“Fiction or fable allures to instruction.”

“If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.”

“In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.”

“In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.”

“When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.”

“The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.”