“It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.”

“The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.”

“written works do not produce fast reactions as pictures and sculptures and music do. it takes no effort to see or hear. but to read - to grasp what the writer has done - requires commitment. engagement. as is the case with most art, the relationship between the maker and the audience is remote in time and space. the writer is nowhere to be seen when the reader takes up the book, or even dead. but most often, books go unread...thus the writer, knowing this as writers do, is even more alone...yet writers write. and knowing what they know makes their isolation almost a sacrament.”

“A successful writer is not a millionaire or best seller. A successful writer is one that has touched another human being with their words. When you do that you have something better than money and fame. You have given another human being something honest." - James Mason”

“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be”

“A writer should be a recluse. Why share words with a few friends in the moment when they can be written down in solitude and shared with everybody at any time?”