“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.”

“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”

“Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know”

“If you write about the present it is very much more difficult to make things sound convincing. But writing about the past means that you are writing about a situation in which you know at least as much as anyone else.”

“I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.”

“This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you”

“It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said. 'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to say again, and unable to resist saying, that 'Dumas, I think it was Dumas, some terrifically prolific Frenchman, said that writing novels is a simple matter - if you write one page a day, you'll write one novel a year, two pages a day, two novels a year, three pages, three novels, and so on. And how long does it take to cover a page with writing? Twenty minutes? An hour? So you see. Very easy really.''I don't know,' she said, laughing. 'I can't even bring myself to write a letter.' 'Oh, now that's hard.'("Novelty")”