It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
– Ernest Hemingway

It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
– C. J. Cherryh

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!
– Ray Bradbury

Writing is its own reward.
– Henry Miller

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.
– Anthony Burgess

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
― Douglas Adams