Experience is an author’s most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Write what you know.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.