"Easy reading is damn hard writing." - Hawthorne.

"Sunlight is painting. Moonlight is sculpture." - Hawthorne.

'Words--so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to use them." - Hawthorne.

"In science there is a dictum: Don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask you readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story." - Ben Bova.

"Find the key emotion; this may be all you need to know to find your short story." - Fitzgerald.

"I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.' - King.


"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness." - George Simenon.

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones." - Jules Verne.

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you don't cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." - Anais Nin.

"Either rite something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Ben Franklin.

"In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it." - Gore Vidal.

"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature." - Hemingway.

"The desire to write grows with writing." - Desiderius Erasmus.