"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
--Stephen King

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
-Stephen King

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
--Anaïs Nin

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
--Mark Twain

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
--Robert Frost

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
--William Faulkner

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
--Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
- Louis L'Amour

"Writing is an act of discovering what you think and what you believe."
-Dan Pink
"In short, you may actually be writing only two or three hours a day, but your mind, in one way or another, is working on it twenty-four hours a day — yes, while you sleep — but only if some sort of draft or earlier version exists. Until it exists, writing has not really begun."
-John McPhee"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." -E. L. Doctorow "Reading good nonfiction is an opportunity 'to watch somebody reasonably bright, but also reasonably average, pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lifes." -David Foster Wallace

"Sometimes I write better than I can." -Ernest Hemingway

"A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave." -Oscar Wilde

Hwaiting!