You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer. - Steven Leigh

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet - it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. - Joss Whedon

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. - Leonardo da Vinci

The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade. - Benjamin Franklin

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. - Henry David Thoreau

Readers tend to like a character who is at least superficially like themselves. But they quickly lose interest unless this particular character is somehow out of the ordinary. - Orson Scott Card

Every book, ever volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. - Daniel HandlerI believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. - Stephen King

I think new authors are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you. - Asha Dornfest

Books have a publishing standard, and every indie author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or exceeded. - Eeva Lancaster

I had to come to terms with the fact that writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it. I would not commit adultery, but I wanted to write a whole book about an affair. I know it sounds simpleminded, but I actually had to have a conversation with myself about this in the beginning, convincing myself that it was alright to depict this affair. - Jonellen Heckler

Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait two years to know whether or not it was funny - Alain de Botton

Describing your writing as trash while you're still drafting is like looking at a bag of flour and an egg and saying "My cake tastes like crap." - Paul Grealish