Quotes
What is clear should not be drawn out too much. These useless explanations, these endless examinations are a kind of long whiteness and lead to boredom. It is the uniformity of a wall, of a long piece of laundry.
I don't like to write anything down on paper that I would not say to myself.
One ruins the mind with too much writing. — One rusts it by not writing at all.
When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.
All things that are easy to say have already been perfectly said.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
Everything that is exact is short.
Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose.
Objects must be described only in order to describe the feelings they envoke in us.
Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.
I like a chapter to have design of tone, as well as of form. A chapter should be a perfect cell in the whole book and should be almost able to stand alone. If this is done then the breaks we call chapters are not arbitrary but rather articulations which allow the free movement of the story.
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
