"My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip."

--Elmore Leonard

 “Is everyone familiar with the concept of layering? Few people can write a great book first draft. It’s called draft for a reason. They might write an adequate book first draft but great generally requires a 2nd, 3rd or however many drafts it takes. Many writers, and I do this myself, go back with each successive draft to layer in areas they may have missed first time around. I go back to add in transitions of time and place. Another time for setting. Another time for description and so on.”

--Kathy Carmichael

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

 --Rumi

 "I don't fully understand my life until I write it."

--Robert Frost