A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75