It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.