If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
- Somerset Maugham

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!
- Ray Bradbury

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
- E. L. Doctorow

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Writers are always selling somebody out.
- Joan Didion

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." 
― Toni Morrison

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

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

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." 
― Stephen King

"There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story." 
― Frank Herbert