One should begin any work of fiction with the longest, most convoluted sentence imaginable, then try to beat that record.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the readers.

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

To write successfully, one requires only a sharp pencil, a piece of paper and a hot cup of tea.