People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is its own reward.

-Henry Miller

Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he?ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.

-Ray Bradbury

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

-Robert A. Heinlein

There?s no money in poetry, but then there?s no poetry in money either.

-Robert Graves

Everywhere I go I?m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don?t stifle enough of them.

-Flannery O?Connor

And as imagination bodies forth. The forms of things unknown, the poet?s pen. Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing. A local habitation and a name.

-William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night?s Dream)

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

-Truman Capote

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

-A. A. Milne

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

-Isaac Asimov