They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy - not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without an order, signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. If you want to get a lift from a Vogon, forget it. They are vile and ill tempered. If you want to get a drink from a Vogon, stick your finger down his throat. If you want to annoy a Vogon, feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. - Douglas Adams

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. - Jim Wallis

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk. - Charlie Chaplin

Look within your fictional cultures at their day to day lives. And ask what’s important to them. Some holidays come up whole cloth out of your world’s history and cultural diversity. If it was important to their view of history, it’s important enough to have a day set aside for it, with reenactments, good food, and traditional music, dance, and acting. - Robert A. Sloan

My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours. - Erin Morgenstern

But a singular sense of impending calamity, that should indeed have served me as a warning, drove me onward. - H.G. Wells

You could be writing the book that changes your life. - Brandon Sanderson

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. - Ernest Hemingway

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. - J.R.R. TolkeinIt doesn’t matter what we write..., so long as we write continually as well as we can. - C.S. Lewis

Never tell all you know - not even to the person you know best. - Agatha Christie

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. - Aristotle

I became a writer not principally because I’m in love with the idea of being a writer, but I’m in love with the idea of entertainment. I just want to entertain people. - Lee Child

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. - Neil Gaiman

I often get mad at myself because I’m writing poorly, or worry that I’ll never write another book, or feel frustrated because I’m up against the limits of my talents, but I never dread writing. So I often feel that I’m not up to the task, but I never dread it. - John Green

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King

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

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well. Something quite different. - Scott Berkun

People constantly make pop culture references. That’s why it’s called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly. - Seth Rogan