"But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
~William Butler Yeats 

"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of." ~Joss Whedon 

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges." ~Ernest Hemingway

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can." ~Ernest Hemingway

"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself." ~Terry Pratchett