"No trilogy should have more than four books." ~ Arthur C. Clarke
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. ~ Ken Burns
The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.~ Etel Adnan
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer. ~ Will Eisner
Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue. ~ Gloria Naylor, Writer's Home Companion
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. ~ Etty Hillesum
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it. ~ Agatha Christie
(Writing) is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not." ~ Jimmy Buffett, Time 7/5/07
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed. ~ Louis Menand