Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on read more

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.