"Good typography should be like like a wonderful clear crystal goblet that holds wine. [It is] much better than a gold…"

"As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was somethi…"

"To outsiders, teaching writing might seem like leading students through endless punctuation exercises. It’s not. In r…"

"Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and …"

"I always feel you're writing the book you couldn't find, so you have to write it yourself."

"You can gather however that I know I am not a real artist, and at the same time am fearfully serious over my work and…"

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writin…"

"If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sen…"

"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference betwe…"