But it takes an awful long time to not write a book!
Douglas Adams

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Serling

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

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

The first draft of anything is always shit.
Ernest Hemmingway