Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

The difference between prose and poetry is that prose is written all the way across the page, and poetry is written only half way across.

If any man wishes to write in a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.

If they didn't pay me (to write), I'd do it for nothing.

Writing is a form of therapy; how do all those who do not write, compose, or paint manage to escape the melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in the human condition?

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Money to a writer is time to write.