"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
--- E. L. Doctorow

"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the keyboard and open a vein."
--- Red Smith

"The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person."
--- Frank Barron

"What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers."
--- Logan Pearsall Smith

"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
--- Charles Peguy

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."
--- Ernest Hemingway