Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
—Virginia Woolf
You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker. This is a depressing thought for a writer.
—Andy Rooney
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
—Nadine Gordimer
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
—Ernest Hemingway
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
—Stephen King
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
—Charlaine Harris
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
—Hunter S. Thompson
People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.
—Neil Gaiman
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