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

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

"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."

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

"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…"

"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."