“Young or old, good or bad, I don’t think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.” – Charles Bukowski

“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” – E. B. White

“Writers live twice.” – Natalie Goldberg

“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as idleness.” – Thomas Carlyle

“The desire to write grows with writing.” – Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus