"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou 

"A writer is working when he's staring out the window." - Burton Rascoe 

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." - W. Somerset Maugham 

Recommended books - A Thousand Roads Home by Carmel Harrington, Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding, The Go-Between by L.P Hartley, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (if you have the patience), The Curious Incident by Mark Haddon.