I have a horror of the blank page but once I'm editing, it's like a puzzle and I like puzzles.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Genius only reveals itself when you show up enough times to get the average ideas out of the way.
The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you are writing, and aren’t writing particularly well.
Combine all your healthy wishes, dreams and hopes into investing in your talent and in the acquisition of knowledge and wisdom. If your art contributes to society, or to the art enthusiasts around you, then you are rewarded honestly, and more so if you make yourself useful to the world around you.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.