Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer,- in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can har…

Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the si…

When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the computer I can get carried away, and I try to go as far as …

By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accompl…

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months…