Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

... the spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.