When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

One does not consider style, because style is.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.