"Talent is nothing other than patience. Work." --Flaubert
"A desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."--Tacitus
"It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs." --Gerald Brenan
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." --Mark Twain
"Be obscure clearly." --E.B. White
"Every writer I know has trouble writing." --Joseph Heller
"For we have been there in the books and out of the books--and where we go, if we are any good, there you can go as we have been. A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practiced the arts."--Ernest Hemingway
"Although there are an astonishing number of aspiring writers who seem to be uninterested in other people's books, you simply cannot be a good writer unless you are also a good reader."
--Judith Barrington
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." --Mark Twain
"It's no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face." --Sherwood Anderson
