“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”
“There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.”
“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.”
“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
“Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ”