"If I were invited to a dinner..." - Quote by Dr Seuss

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”

“When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”

“Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'”

“A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.”

“To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.”

“A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.”

“Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.”

“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.”

“Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.”