On Writing...

Writing is a lot like sex. At first you do it because you like it. Then you find yourself doing it for a few close friends and people you like. But if you're any good at all...you end up doing it for money. --Unknown

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. --Unknown

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. --Cyril Connolly

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. --Arthur Evans

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. --John Osborne

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. --Ray Bradbury