There's nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. 

~E.L. Doctorow
 

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

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Philippians 1:21

I try to leave out the parts that people skip. 

~Elmore Leonard