"The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living."

— Annie Dillard

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

— Richard Bach

"Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case."

— Annie Dillard

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

— Al Bernstein

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."

— Anne Frank