What writers say about writing...

1.    “If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison

2.    “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King

3.    "You put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy ... and that hard." – Neil Gaiman

4.    "Everyone walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them." – Orson Scott Card

5.    "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." – Maya Angelou

6.    "Figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer." – Barbara Kingsolver

7.    "We write to taste life twice - in the moment and in retrospect." – Anaïs Nin

8.    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.” – Robert Frost

9.    “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.” – Herman Melville

10.“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!” – Ray Bradbury

11.“You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.” – Harlan Ellison

12.“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach

13.“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

14.“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.” – Neil Gaiman

15.“If it sounds like writing, I re-write it.” – Elmore Leonard

16.“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.” – Harper Lee

17.“Just write every day of your life, read intensely, then see what happens.” – Ray Bradbury

18.“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” – Thomas Mann

19. “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no-one knows what they are.” – W. Somerset Maugham

20.“Writing is like driving a car at night in the fog: you can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” – E. L. Doctorow