Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.

Writing is hard work.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.