Write without pay until somebody offers to pay

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a read more

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in read more

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

I lived to write, and wrote to live

I lived to write, and wrote to live

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.