"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."

"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."

"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."

"I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud."

"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."

"The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them."

"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."

"There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively."