“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”
“Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.”
“He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.”
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
“Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text”
“Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.”
“Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.”
“I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.”
“Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.”
“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
“Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.”
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
“No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
“To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
“The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.”
“You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.”
“Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.”
“Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.”
“Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.”
“He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.”
“Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.”
“Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!”
“I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.”
“The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
“Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.”
“I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.”