“For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to write than it is to study about writing.”

“What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.”

“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.”

“Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.”

“To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.”

“Always write with property, because how you write is who you are and what is written will remain written.”