“You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.”
“You never know what you have till you've lost it.”
“You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.”
“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.”
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
“Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.”