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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.