I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.