Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. Jessamyn West
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. Robert Frost
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words... Yasunari Kawabata
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Theodor Seuss Geisel
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. Nicholson Baker
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Annie Proulx
