—Somerset Maugham
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.
—Stephen King
It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
—Patsy Cline
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
—John Cleese
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
—Steve Martin
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
—Jack London
If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.
—Terry Pratchett
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
—Neil Gaiman
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
—Mark Twain
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