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If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.