“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”
“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”
“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”
“In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.”
“Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately and effectively as he can, his style will take care of itself.”
“A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.”