There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. – Miguel de Cervantes

Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never be anything else. – Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski

Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. – From the movie Finding Forrester

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. – Ralph Waldo Emerson