- “The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.” –Dave Barry
- “Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”—Moliere
- “I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning”—Peter de Vries
- “Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.”—Rumer Godden
- “I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”—Hemmingway
- “Women with clean houses do not have finished books.”—Joy Held
- “Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.”—Don Henley
- “More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”—Chuck Palahniuk
- “It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.”—Bette Midler
- “I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed”—Gustave Flaubert
- “Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets”—Eddy Peters
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