"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it

"Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. "

The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.