– Stephen King
"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration."
– Ernest Hemingway
"It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."
– Ernest Hemingway
"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use."
– Mark Twain
"And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name."
– William Shakespeare
"If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write."
– Somerset Maugham
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
– Herman Melville
"It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly."
– C. J. Cherryh
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous."
– Robert Benchley
"Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer."
– Ray Bradbury
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