“To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.”

“Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.”

“Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.”

“If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.”

“There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.”

“You can't disbelieve the truth away. You can cover the truth, you can create something new, but either way you have to believe what you are creating.”

“Guilt loves the passive.”