A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

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

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.