A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Write when you least feel like it,Because that's when you write best.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The code of the coward is to run away. I know, because I wrote the manual.

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three....

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.