1. “The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written.” - Joyce Carol Oates
2. "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Connolly
3. "I write books to find out about things." - Rebecca West
4. “To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive.” - William Zinsser
5. "Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come the most unsought for are commonly the most valuable." - Francis Bacon
6. “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” - Virginia Woolf
7. "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it." - Anais Nin
8. "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - Sylvia Plath
9. "The road to hell is paved with adverbs." - Stephen King
10. "To gain your voice, you have to forget about having it heard." - Allen Winsberg