If they haven't heard it before it's original.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.

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

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

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

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.