Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

An author departs; he does not die.

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

I can't write five words but that I change seven.

... The principle, axiomatic in literature: that to know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

A good title should be like a good metaphor: it should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.