"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."

--Paulo Coelho

 "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."

--Isaac Asimov

 "The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

--Vladimir Nabokov

 "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."

--Mark Twain