“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.”

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

“What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.”

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water”

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

“Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”