Rachelle

1. 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

2. A bad title can hurt you, and a good title can help you somewhat. -
Paul Erdman (”The Crash of ’79″,”The Billion Dollar Sure Thing”, “The Last Days of America”)

3. As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It’s a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly. -
Paul Rudnick

4. I like to think of the world I created as being a kind of keystone in the universe; that, small as the keystone is, if it were ever taken away the universe itself would collapse.
-William Faulkner

5. A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. -
William Sansom

6. Writers have an island, a centre of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind’s anchorage, the soul’s Great Good Place. - Wright Morris

7. Determine what your character wants, how far he will go to achieve it and how far someone else will go to try to stop him -
J. Michael Straczynski (”The Complete Book of Scriptwriting”)

8. Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting. -
Pete Hamill

9. Writing for money is a job … just like any other job where you want to succeed. It requires self-discipline, focus and total dedication, as well as talent and desire. -
B. A. Llewellyn (”Writing to a Brief”)

10. Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
- Franklin P. Adams, (”Half a Loaf”)