Writing is the painting of the voice.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

Write what should not be forgotten.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

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

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

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