Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.