"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people.
And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy."
— Joss Whedon

"Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."
— Stephen King

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
— Edgar Lawrence Doctorow