I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.