Writers are alone. If you're a producer, you know all the other producers out there. If you're a writer, you don't know any of your peers.

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

This is a quiet, gentle man who did something extraordinary,

I think most writers, if they will admit it, have stories in their head all the time ... . The problem with writers is we have too many stories.

Clifton Anthony is a person I would want living next door to me, my daughters and my mom.