The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."

A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.