Quotes on Writing. Got any good ones?

took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
~ Robert Benchley

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If somebody drives it off a cliff, that's it.
~Rita Mae Brown

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.
~ Lewis Carroll

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
~ Raymond Carver

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
~ Raymond Chandler

"Everything stinks till it's finished." — Dr. Seuss

"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind." — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1. An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)

2.This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)

3. A metaphor is like a simile. ~Author Unknown

4.Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)

5. All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight (1940 - )

6. You know how it is in the kid's book world; it's just bunny eat bunny.
- Anonymous

7.If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs

8.Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- Truman Capote

9. If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing.
- Benjamin Franklin

10. All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
- Elmore Leonard
I just sit down and write.
William Carlos Williams

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time;
the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting.
That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

If you want to get in touch with your feelings fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts – William Safire.