Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

I’ve always believed writing ads is the second most profitable form of writing. The first is ransom notes…

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me,with all who I encounter.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Orafoura told me my writing is all nonsense. “Nonsense,” I replied. “Glad you agree, “ he said.

My job is to inspire others to live full lives. Whether I do that through my writing or my actions are one in the same.

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.