I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

If a writer : knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows:. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of…

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get t…