“What was the use of writing if someone didn't read what you have to say?”

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

“What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.”

“write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.”

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”

“I write what I would like to read – what I think other women would like to read. If what I write makes a woman in the Canadian mountains cry and she writes and tells me about it, especially if she says ‘I read it to Tom when he came in from work and he cried too,’ I feel I have succeeded.”

“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”

“If you write a lot of programs, and you're used to squeezing them all the time, you find that it's easy to write a program that's simple. A lot of it is having a clear sense of what you want to say — writing the proof by choosing what to prove, and being clear about that. In programming, a lot of simplicity comes from knowing what matters and what doesn't matter.”

“If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”