Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.