If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

My Muse sits forlornShe wishes she had not been bornShe sits in the coldNo word she says is ever told.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.