You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such grea…