“What should I do?""Throw up in your typewriter every morning.""Yeah.""Clean up every noon.”

“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”

“Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.”

“Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters.”

“It's bad to get up early, stand at your typewriter and work, then find it's nothing and take a bottle to bed.”

“I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.”

“Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..”