A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.