Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. - Edward Abbey

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. - John H. McWhorter

For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day. If, in those pre-portable days, I couldn’t get to a keyboard, I wrote hard the previous night and caught up the following day, and if it ever seemed that it was easy to do the average I upped the average. - Terry Pratchett

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before. - Joseph Campbell

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” - Stephen King

Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard. - Marissa Me