A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.

- Jim Watkins

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

- Lao Tzu

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

- Andrew Murphy

Just remember, the people that say "your dreams are impossible" have already quit on theirs.

- Grant Cardone

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Oscar Wilde

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

- Tony Hillerman

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

- Pearl S. Buck

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or  the tools) to write. Simple as that. 

- Stephen King

Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

- Alice Walker, author "The Color Purple"

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

- Maya Angelou

It takes backbone, not wishbone, to make success.

- Unknown

A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.

– Unknown

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

- Ray Bradbury

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot.

- Leigh Brackett

Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.

- Leslie Gordon Barnard

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.

That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

- Octavia E. Butler

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.

- Ernest Hemingway

You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop—H2O. The reader will get it.

- George Singleton

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

- William S. Burroughs

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. 

- Scott Adams