A lot of people talk about writing.
The secret is to write, not talk.

—Jackie Collins

Writing and rewriting
are a constant search
for what one is trying to say.

—John Updike

When I began to write,
I found out that this was
the best way to make sense of my life.

—John Cheever

I know I was writing stories when I was five.
I don’t know what I did before that . . .
just loafed, I guess.

—A. N. Whitehead