“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
“Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.”
“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
“All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.”
“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”
“Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.”
“He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.”
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
“Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text”
“Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.”
“Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.”
“I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.”
“Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.”
“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
“Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.”
“Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.”
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
“No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
“Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.”
“To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
“The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.”
“You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.”
“Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.”