One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
A man is only as good as what he loves.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.