Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college. –Kurt Vonnegut

Write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for. –Mark Twain

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.  –Ray Bradbury

Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. –Elmore Leonard

The first draft of anything is shit.—Ernest Hemingway.

Omit needless words. –William Strunk

The only rule for writing I have is to leave it while I’m still hot… –William Faulkner

Whoever wants to tell a story of a sainted grandmother, unless you can find some old love letters, and get a new grandfather?  –Robert Penn Warren

When you write the thing through once, you find out what the end is. Then you can go back to the first chapter and put in a lot of those foreshadowings. –Flannery O’Connor

As far as I’m concerned the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.  –Neil Gaiman