“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot…and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.” – Gerard de Marigny

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“…read a lot and write. Don’t worry if you don’t get your first, fifth or tenth novel published, if you keep going you’ll make it.” – Katie Fforde

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime.” – Ray Bradbury

“Accept that the world may never notice this thing you worked so hard at. And instead, do it for it, find a job, find a way of living that gives you an hour or two or three a day to do it, and then work your ass off sending out, trying to get out there, but do not put the pressure on the work to do something for you. Because then you’re going to be writing dishonestly and for the market instead of for the characters and your story.” – Andre Dubus III