“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.” -Hunter S. Thompson

"I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind" - Patrick Dennis

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." - Samuel Johnson

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." - Robert Frost

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need." - Voltaire

"Be obscure clearly." - E.B. White

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame" --Oscar Wilde

"Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing." - E.L. Doctorow

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” — Anne Frank

"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth" --Tim O'Brien

"Be courageous and try to write in a way that scares you a little." - Holly Gerth

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations." --Henry David Thoreau

"To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive." - William Zinsser

"The only true thing is what's in front of you right now." - Ramona Ausubel

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." --Hunter S Thompson

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” ― Lisa See

"And gladly would ye lerne, and gladly teche" --Geoffrey Chaucer

"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." - Terry Pratchett

"I said to the sun, 'Tell me about the big bang.' The sun said, 'it hurts to become.'" - Andrea Gibson

"Poets are damned, but see with the eyes of angels" --Allen Ginsberg