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

"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."

"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."

"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."

"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."