Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.