“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.”
                                                  – Mark Twain’s Notebook, 1902-1903

“I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I really meant.”     – Robert McCloskey

“No one can help you if you’re stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work’s possibilities.”   – Annie Dillard

In baseball you only get three swings and you’re out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you’ll hit the ball.             – Neil Simon

“Just get it down on paper, and then we’ll see what to do about it.”
              – Maxwell Perkins

“I wrote from a sense of need. I needed something to do. You can’t just sleep all day long.”
                    – Snoopy

“Be regular and orderly in your life lke a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.”                     – Gustave Flaubert

“The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.” – William Goldman

“Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.”
                                                                                – David Ben Gurion