When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. – John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 1961 September 10th

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. – Author Unknown

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. – Jules Renard, “Diary,” February 1895