Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. - Robert Half

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. - Samuel Johnson

I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system - it’s a quest. - Kurt Vonnegut

Making sure that geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right. - Michael Scott

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear. - Patricia Fuller

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling. - Joyce Rachelle

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld