"... only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things." Anton Chekhov

 "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

"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 writer is working when he's staring out of the window." Burton Rascoe

"Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped." Lillian Helman