It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
or simply:
