“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”

Patricia Marx

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.

William Faulkner

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!

Ray Bradbury

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a nam

William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)