Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.