Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only... - William Faulkner

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

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

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

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"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."