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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

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

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

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

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.

There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.