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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
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Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
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Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
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What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?
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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
