“It is easy to find the problem. Knowing the difference between critique and criticism is the solution. Condition your rawhide for growth. (Either way).”

“Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.”

“As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.”

“Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.”

“If I were to complain about complainers. Am I a culprit comparable conveyor? Let go of the anger. Its crimping my colossal contentment.”

“Do you suffer fromcallous-narrow-minded biases?Im humanely secondhand embarrassed for you.”

“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone...”

“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," a...”

“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean hell, I know that.”

“New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.”

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

“A writer observes you far sharply than others and therefore you find your traits in a book.”

“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you cant, youre dead”

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebooka fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Its the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”