write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.