"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." --Ray Bradbury
"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay." -Mark Twain
"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." - Kingsley Amis
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader." - Robert Frost
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
"Quantity produces quality. If you write little,
you'll never have quality of idea or quality of
output." - Ray Bradbury
"All writers are vain, selfisch and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." -
George Orwell
"It is impossible to discourage the real writers--they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write." - Sinclair Lewis