Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it