Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.