“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.”

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water”

“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”

“There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.(Interview with Paris Review, 1958)”

“Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.”

“Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.”

“Never confuse movement with action.”