Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning

In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.