"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any." ~ Orson Scott Card

"Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you -- as if you haven't been told a million times already -- that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching." ~Harlan Ellison

"It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does." ~ William Faulkner

"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

"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there." ~ Thomas Berger