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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

The pen is mightier than the sword, but no one is worthy to pull it from the stone.- James Bauerle

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all. - Lewis Carrol

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. - Winston Churchill

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Anton Chekhov

The first draft of anything is shit. - Ernest Hemingway

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. - Ernest Hemingway

Be obscure clearly. - E. B. White

Writing is both mask and unveiling. - E. B. White

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grow heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. - Virginia Woolf

Writing is utter solitude, the decent into the cold abyss of oneself. - Franz Kafka

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me. - Winnie the Pooh, (A. A. Milne),

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