Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

The work is plentiful but the labours are few.

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.