We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

  ~ Anne Lamott

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.

~ Arthur Evans

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

~ Baltasar Gracián

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

~ Ernest Hemingway

Never throw up on an editor.

- Ellen Datlow

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
--Richard Needham

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

~ Mark Twain

"...it's easy after all not to be a writer. most people aren't writers and very little harm comes to them."

Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot