A Writer Has To Surprise

We Can't All Be Friends And Relatives As The World Is; Most Of Us Have To Be Strangers.

Writers Who Can't Invent Stories Often Substitute Style For Narrative. They Remind Me Of The Painter Who Couldn't Paint People, So He Painted Chairs.

The Great Thing About Writing: Stay With It ... Ultimately You Teach Yourself Something Very Important About Yourself.

I Write A Book At Least Three Times-once To Understand It, The Second Time To Improve The Prose, And A Third To Compel It To Say What It Still Must Say.

The Idea Is To Get The Pencil Moving Quickly.