'Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.' -Gene Fowler

'I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. -James Michener

'Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.' -Nathaniel Hawthorne

'Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.' -Anton Chekhov

'Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.'-Jeanette Winterson in The Times

'But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.'- Lord Byron

'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.' -William Wordsworth