“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” – Beatrix Potter
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ― John Steinbeck
“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
― Dorothy Parker
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
“My study throngs with characters waiting to be written. Imaginary people, anxious for a life, who tug at my sleeve, crying, ‘Me next! Go on! My turn!’ I have to select. And once I have chosen, the others lie quiet for ten months or a year, until I come to the end of the story, and the clamor starts up again.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”― Terry Pratchett
