“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.” saving the best part for paper. become immortal. it means I made it.” “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.” “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.” “Write while the heat is in you. … The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.” “You don’t actually have to write anything until you’ve thought it out.