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I think I have grown impatient with just being a writer.

I think writers are very anxious.

I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.

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

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think.

I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point.

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.