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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you felt like it. J.D. Salinger
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. Zora Neale Hurston
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for. Mark Twain
All except the shallowest living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. Msgr. John Sullivan
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture -- which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. Rose Tremain
What a writer must enjoy, or at least tolerate, is the utterly solitary nature of the work. Lawrence Block
Writers should be read but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne DuMaurier
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. Ernest Hemingway
