"I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction." --Anne R. Allen
"Writers don't retire. They just die." --Warren Ellis
"Writers don't retire. They just die." --Warren Ellis
"Writing a book is like slow-dancing with a wildebeest." --Tahereh Mafi
"Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted." --Jules Renard
"Ah, writers and hookers, for whom the greatest compliment is: you kept me awake and entertained all night long." --Gail Carriger
"Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind." --Patrick Dennis
"There really is no one way to write a book. Anyone who tells you otherwise has probably eaten too many sour Skittles for breakfast." --Tahereh Mafi
"Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down." --Ray Bradbury
"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time." --Kurt Vonnegut
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs." --Stephen King
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." --Robert Frost
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." --Peter De Vries
"I try to leave out the parts people skip." --Elmore Leonard
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." --Harold Ross
"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose." --P.G. Wodehouse
