You can quote me

Last updated 26/01/2013

If you have quotes that have inspired you to write, please share them with us. 
Send them to veronica@spamaarrest.com
Here are some  to get you started:

"I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. 
As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up." Stephen King, interviewed by Neil Gaiman

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. 
Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply 
come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.
Barbara Kingsolver

I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. 
No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating.
Poul Anderson

Those who write clearly have readers. Those who write obscurely have commentators.
Albert Camus

I keep six honest serving men
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
and How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
W. Somerset Maugham

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
E.L. Doctorow

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
Baltasar Gracian

"Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. 
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! 
You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."
William Faulkner

"The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea."
Thomas Mann

"If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit."
Stephen King

"You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. 
Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like."
Phyllis A. Whitney

Nothing is written until it's re-written. (Gene Perret)