#Writing: “It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.” – Polly Adler

#Writing: "For 2,000 years you’ve had the nerve to tell women who we are." – Kathy Acker

#Writing: "The town seemed to have crawled up out of the Atlantic like some prehistoric thing seeking the sun, finding instead a rocky, inhospitable coastline and collapsing upon it in disappointment and exhaustion." – Ed McBain, born 100 years ago on today's date

#Writing: "Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel." – Bella Abzug

#Writing: "Laughter does not please the mighty." – Dario Fo, who died 10 years ago on today's date

#Writing: "He is suffering from delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr, who died 30 years ago on today's date

#Writing: "It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much." – George Eliot

#Writing: "Now God deliver me from my friends!" - John Marston, born 450 years ago on today's date

#Writing: “Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.” ― Erle Stanley Gardner, a main figure in my new nonfiction book The Case of the Autographed Corpse

#Writing: "To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music." – Jan Morris

#Writing: "People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two." – Sara Sheridan

"#Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation." – Laurence Sterne

#Writing: "I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel." – Gloria Naylor, who died 10 years ago on yesterday's date

#Writing: "Now it's time to crawl into a small room & make a few words happy to be together." – Philip Levine

#Writing: "You can always revise something; you can't revise nothing." – David Mura

#Writing: "I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the words seemed wonderful, just too wonderful to be coming from me. Next morning I always found they were terrible & I could never use anything I wrote." - Gypsy Rose Lee

#Writing: "I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once." - John Coltrane, born 100 years ago on today's date