“A writer wastes nothing.”
“Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.”
“The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.”
“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.”
“Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.”
“almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on”