“The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.”
“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
“Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines towards: the making of signs to look through rather than at.”
“There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.”
“The only way to learn to write is to write.”
“[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite”