Sharon O'Brien:

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

Sholem Asch:
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Jules Renard:
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.

Stephen Leacock:
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Jack London:
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

F. Scott Fitzgerald:
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say.

William Shakespeare:
If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me.

Robert Benchley:
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Edmund Morrison:
Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.

Mark Twain:
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Ernest Hemingway:
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Andre Gide:
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Charles Caleb Colton:
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Robert Frost:
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

Joseph Pulitzer:
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

Napoleon Hill:
Reduce your plan to writing.

Ray Bradbury:
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Peter F. Drucker:
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Logan Pearsall Smith:
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.

Samuel Johnson:
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Goldwyn:
What we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and builds to a climax.

Erica Jong:
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.