“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” – Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955)

“Do not worry.” – Hemingway

“Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .” – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

“I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.” – James Michener

“Books are never finished, they are merely abandoned.” – Oscar Wilde

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” – T.S. Eliot

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a writer in possession of an unpublished manuscript, must be in want of an agent.” – Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware Blogs

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” ~ Cicero [106 B.C. to 43 B.C.]