I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

Description begins in the writer s imagination but should finish in the reader s

Seperti apakah Anda? Menurut saya, paling tidak Anda adalah apa yang Anda tulis.

Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.