“There is much for a young writer to learn from our poorest writers. It is very destructive to burn bad books, almost more destructive than to burn good ones.”

“Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.”

“Respecting the cosmogony of the Egyptian priests, we gather much information from writers of the Grecian sects, who borrowed almost all their tenets from Egypt, and amongst others that of the former successive destruction and renovation of the world.”

“A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.”

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do — and they don’t. They have prejudices.”

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”

“young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.”

“Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.”

“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.”

“Nothing means more to a writer than to get a letter from a reader who has deeply connected to one of your books.”