For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an appreciation of yourself for….

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience..

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer..

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times..

Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could….

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows val….

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing..

I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at leas….

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that..

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified..

It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do ….

Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one….

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent ….

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it..

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the wo….

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble..

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them..

The book belongs to the author..

You have to throw yourself away when you write..