A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image o ...

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.