Stolen Inspiration
"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." --Jack London
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." --Ernest Hemingway
"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." --Charles Peguy
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter." --James Michener
And my favorite favorite:
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." --E.L. Doctorow