“Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.”

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

“But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.”

“Columnists write not just because they have something to say but also because they have to say something.”

“If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.”