Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. —Joan Didion—

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —Anton Chekhov—

The worse day writing is better then the best day at work.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. —George RR Martin—

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. —Françoise Sagan—

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. —Joyce Carol Oates—

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. —Orson Welles—

There is only one way to work—Like Hell. —Bette Davis—

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. —Frank Capra—

Write hard and clear about what hurts. —Ernest Hemingway—

Remember we are mortal, but poetry is not. —Patti Smith—

It is a miracle. I don’t know where the good songs come from or else I’d go there more often. —Leonard Cohen—

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. —Ray Bradbury—

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea. —Richard Ford—

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed. —William Shakespeare—

If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down. —Toni Morrison—

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. —Arthur Miller—

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. —Steve Martin—

The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one. —James Baldwin—

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. —Sylvia Plath—