Lista de Poemas

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.
The moment a man begins to talk about technique, that’s proof he is fresh out of ideas.
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? . . . You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

letter to Edward Weeks, 18 January 1947

When in doubt have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

attributed

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

Would you convey your compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.

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