Hunger is good discipline.
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
A big lie is more plausible than truth.