“If you do writing, people will store your gigawords.”

“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.”

“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.”

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”

“You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.”

“They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.”