“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay”
Mark Twain
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway
“If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin
“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.”
Alfred Kazin
“He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep.”
John Lennon
“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness”
Georges Simenon