Quotes on Writing

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.