"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."

Alfred Hitchcock

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly."

C. J. Cherryh

"A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God."

Sidney Sheldon

"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."

Margaret Atwood

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."

T. S. Eliot