The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

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

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

There are two kinds of writers; those that make you think and those that make you wonder.

When people talk to themselves they should listen more. That's how writers are born.

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.