“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” Cyril Connolly

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."Oscar Wilde

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.” James Dickey

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”Robert Benchley

"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country." Robert Frost

“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.” Elmore Leonard

"Whether or not you write well, write bravely." Bill Stout

“A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Virginia Woolf

“When genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.” D.H. Lawrence