I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

When a character comes to life, it’s like meeting a new friend for the first time.

If you can listen to or read anything, but misspelled words offend you, raise your hadn.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Writing is an artificial activity It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.