A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

A journalist recently said in the newspapers that writers should keep their mouths shut as much as possible and I think he was probably right. Better to write than to speak.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

The Less I Say The More My Work Gets Done.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

The key to better writing is working less

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.

The more you know, the less you need to say.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway — in secret.

The more you know the less you need to say.