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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

I always wrote with the idea that what I put out there is going to stay there. Once I publish something, it has been published. I've never deleted more than one or two posts from my site. I don't think that there are takebacks. I don't feel right about it.

If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.

I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.