A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.

What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Fill your papers with the breathings of your heart.

Writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers