"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page." ~ Stephen King
"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time - or the tools - to write. Simple as that." ~ Stephen King
"The scariest moment is always just before you start." ~ Stephen King
"[Y]ou can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will." ~ Stephen King
"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads." ~ Dr. Seuss
"A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God." ~ Sidney Sheldon
"There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write." ~ Terry Pratchett
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector." ~ Ernst Hemingway
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." ~ Jack London
"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done." ~ Steven Wright
"Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled." ~ Dean Koontz
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money." ~ Jules Renard
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~ Rudyard Kipling
