The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.

Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton

Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.

Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.