He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.