A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. - Raymond Chandler

"There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art."

"Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon."

"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say."