"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”

“Work could cure almost anything”

“You'll lose it, if you talk about it”

“What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.”

“And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.”

“Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.”

“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”

“Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.”

“I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.”