“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” ― Mark Twain
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” ― Saul Bellow
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” ― Jack Kerouac
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” ― Robert Frost
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” ― E.L. Doctorow
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” ― Philip Pullman
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." ― Louis L'Amour