A writer thinks that the time to begin writing is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. 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.
