The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.