“Lunatics are writers whose works write them.”

“Of course, the vision of many works, such as the sense of picture and imagery, is actually unconscious by the writer. If the writer is conscious, he will write very artificial things.”

“Edvin is one of those persons who write to survive as writers and people; for them being a human and writer is the same thing.”

“She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”

“1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.”

“I'm not sure I'd want to pick the brain of any author. Some writers have a lot to say about what they write and why they write it. Others don't. I've met a lot of writers who have an awful lot to say in the bar, but whose books seem curiously empty.”

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.”

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows, and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things only because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.”

“A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.”