If the doctor told me, I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster

A writer always remembers that words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, could become potent for good and evil in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which writes before him.