"Don't just tell me that your brother is funny--show me what he says and does and let me decide whether I want to laugh."

--Dennis G. Jerz

 "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

--Cyril Connolly

 
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend."

--Zora Neale Hurston

 "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

--E.L.Doctorow