Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or p... - William Faulkner

"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."

"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."