Quotations. Here are some I like:
- If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
- Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry
- The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
- Wally Lamb
- There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
