They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.