Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you need at least four of them, and they need to be rotated every 5,000 miles

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations

Writers will happen in the best of families

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything