Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

… and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

If you have Microsoft Word, you can become a writer tonight. Just start typing!

Crazy by definition isKnowing that true sanity isA figment of the educated mind

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.