“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.”

“I always say that I’m a writer who writes more from place than race.”

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

“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”

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

“Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”

“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”

“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.”

“Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.”

“Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.”