Emotion Etwas / Anything Geben / Give Großartig / Great Großes Vergnügen / Great Pleasure Leicht / Easily Leser / Reader Noch nie / Never Schreiben / Write Schriftsteller / Writer Sie / You Tut / Does Übertragen / Transferred Vergnügen / Pleasure
Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but it grew beyond the category.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.
We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
