"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work."
Emile Zola

"We write to taste life twice."
Anais Nin

"I don't need time, what I need is a deadline."
Duke Ellington

"Writing is easy. All you do is sit, staring at a blank sheet of paper, until the drops of blood form on your forehead."
Gene Fowler.

"Writer's write, just like runners run. Almost no one asks how many pages in a day or how many minutes in your mile. Just doing it counts."
Eileen Rendahl

A professional writer is an amateur that doesn't quit."
Richard Bach