"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." ~ Richard Bach

"I only write when I'm inspired, so I see to it that I'm inspired every morning at nine o'clock." ~ Peter De Vries

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." ~ Steven King

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way." ~ Ernest Hemingway

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." ~ Stephen King

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

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." ~ Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt