Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.