“If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.”
“When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.”
“No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.”
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don’t want to go. You look where you don’t want to look.”
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”