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

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. – Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927

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