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


"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." 
― Mark Twain


"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down." 
― Kurt Vonnegut