Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passe before it gets into print.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

The more you reason the less you create.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.