Words To Live (and Write) By

'There's only one person a writer should listen to, pay any attention to. It's not any damn critic. It's the reader.'
--William Styron

'However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once.'
--Rousseau

'I was a writing fool when I was 11 years old, and have been tapering off ever since.'
--E.B. White.