"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
— Truman Capote
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
-Lillian Hellman
"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
- Ernest Hemingway
"To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose."
- Eudora Welty
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart..."
- William Wordsworth
"Selling the piece is only and exclamation point, a spot of punctuation."
- Jane Yolen