Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Style is to forget all styles.