we dig our graves with our teeth.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

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.

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

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.