Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,
then go fly a kite.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is the contract between you.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.