Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
– Ernest Hemingway

It’s perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.
– C. J. Cherryh

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night.  You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
_ E. L Doctorow

Tell the readers a story.  Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
– Anne McCaffrey

I love deadlines.  I like the whooshing sounds they make as they fly by.
– Douglas Adams

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
– Sidney Sheldon

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. 
I’d type a little faster.  – Isaac Asimov

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
– Rudyard Kipling

There are three rules for writing.  Unfortunately, no one can agree what they are.
– Summerset Maughn