I'm out of words today...

So I borrowed a few from other writers. Enjoy!

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. - Robert Benchley

The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. – Mark Twain

We are all apprentices in a craft in which no one ever becomes a master. – Ernest Hemingway

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow

Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov

Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ~E.L. Doctorow

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. ~Samuel Johnson

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ~Sinclair Lewis

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. ~Franz Kafka

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ~André Gide, Journals, 1894

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~George Orwell

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. ~John Updike