“There are worse things than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
--Joseph Brodsky

“The beautiful part of writing is you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”
--Robert Cormier

“None but a blockhead ever wrote, but for money.”
--Samuel Johnson

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
--Ray Bradbury

“Do what you can with what you have, where you are.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
--Willa Cather

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

“Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. reading, the love of reading, is what makes you an author.”
--Susan Sontag

“The brain that doesn’t feed itself eats itself.”
--Gore Vidal

“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”
--Virginia Woolf

“We work in the dark-- we do what we can-- we give what we have.”
--Henry James