I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Television is for appearing on – not for looking at.
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.