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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
-Robert Frost

"There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
-Frank Herbert

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration."
-Ernest Hemingway

"You go where the story leads you."
-Stephen King

"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him."
-Ray Bradbury

"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth."
-Simone de Beauvoir

"Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happend somewhere else...Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?"
-Eudora Welty

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip."
-Elmore Leonard

"Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality."
-Jack Kerouac

"Writing is the painting of the voice."
-Voltaire

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
-Herman Melville

"Theme is a statement, or series of related observations, about some aspect of the human condition, interpreted from the unique viewpoint of the author."
-Dean Koontz

"You see, but you do not observe."
-John Watson 

"When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature."
-Barnard Hemingway

"Personality refers to individuals' characteristic patterns m of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms-hidden or not-behind those patterns."
-David C. Funder

"Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein