"Half my life is an act of revision."
--John Irving


"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."
--William Faulkner

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
--Gustave Flaubert

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
--Isaac Asimov



"Tears are words that need to be written."
--Paulo Coelho