“A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.”
“I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.”
“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.”
“Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.”
“There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.”
“The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.”