Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.