When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Be brave to share your story! Each of our stories, have a golden treasure for a specific need.

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.

I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't.

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.