Read, read, then write

"Read, read, read. Read everything- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

- William Faulkner

"An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many and grows inveterate in their insane hearts."

- Juvenal

"Writing is for the most part a lonely and unsatisfying ocupation. One is tied to a table, a chair, a stack of paper."

- Graham Greene