I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews

Written reports stifle creativity

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them

This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher to share in grand conversations about books, to spread the joy, to initiate and welcome students into the fraternity, into...the club of clubs, to travel with them into wondrously familiar or incredibly strange imaginative worlds