"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." --Winston Churchill
"A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others." --William Faulkner
"After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in. " --Henry Miller
"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for. " --Mark Twain
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. " --Ernest Hemingway
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." --Ernest Hemingway
"Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive. " --Salman Rushdie
Thoughts? Are they right? Wrong?
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