"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make." ~Truman Capote
"You can revise a bad first draft into a great book. But you can't revise a blank page into anything but a blank page." ~Chris Baty
"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." ~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." ~Elmore Leonard
"It's an adrenaline surge rushing through your body. You have this spark of an idea that keeps threatening to burst into flames and you have to get the words out on paper to match this emotion or picture in your head. After this comes the work of cleaning up the mess that you made." ~Janet West
"It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them." ~Anne Tyler
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader." ~Robert Frost
"I've discovered I get anxious when I skip writing for more than a day. There's something narcotizing about the struggle to put words down on paper. It's addictive. I keep notepads all over the house to capture ideas before they slip out of my head. Once I woke up and wrote down a snippet of dialogue I heard in a dream because I liked how it sounded. People I meet on the street transform into characters. Articles in newspapers become plotlines. Sunsets challenge me to describe them. An author friend of mine told me I was experiencing the symptoms of turning into a writer. I think he's right. Writing has been changing me - and for the better." ~The Waiter, Waiter Rant
"Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded." ~Sidney Sheldon
"What I lack in authenticity, I make up for in imagination." ~Ronda
"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright." ~Sam Seaborn, The West Wing (20 Hours in America, Part II)
"If I knew any real people...as interesting as my characters, I wouldn't have to entertain myself by writing fiction." ~L.B. Cobb
"He let ideas come, but felt no compulsion to rush into print with them; he let them play in his head, play on his tongue in endless conversations; he put them into letters, into prose, which formed a kind of halfway stage between speech and poetry. What reached print was 'an idea of an idea of an idea'. When it finally emerged, it was fully formed and richly developed." ~Jay Parini, Robert Frost: A Life
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