“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.”_____________________“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is possible that his book will remain as a whole; as an entity; as a novel.”______________________“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.” -- source link