"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes." Agatha Christie 

"The function of the novelist . . . is to comment upon life as he sees it." Frank Norris

“Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man.” Emily Dickinson

“Writing is a struggle against silence.” Carlos Fuentes

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.” Lord Byron

“Every writer I know has trouble writing.” Joseph Heller

“There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” Flannery O'Connor

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” Mark Twain

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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