“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” – Truman Capote

“Normal people can produce extraordinary things by simply refusing to leave a blank page blank.” – Chris Baty, creator of NaNoWriMo.org

“I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.” – Moliere, from _The Ridiculous Precieuses_

“Blank pages inspire me with terror.” – Margaret Atwood

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

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

“I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.” – Steven Wright

“No one can tell you when to start and how to stop, either. And only you can put it off until there are no more tomorrows.” – Susan Bono

“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how . . . . We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” – Agnes de Mille, dancer and choreographer

“The one thing all nations share is the fear that a member of the family will want to be an artist.” – Robert Frost