I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I ….

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to over….

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole ex….

At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend this approach to ….

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking..

You can get to everywhere from almost anywhere..

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me..

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it..

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow mornin….

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow..

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place..

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring..

Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another….

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well..

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing..

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader..

I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. ….

Where ever you are be all there.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly..

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influenc….