I once stayed in a hotel, next door to a well-known writer.
He never talked about writing.
Each night I heard his typewriter,
hour after hour,
past midnight.
Everyone else in the hotel was asleep.
The sound of that machine reminds me, still,
that what writers do is write.

—Richard Bach

[What is the secret to successful writing?]
Read.
Write.
Rewrite.
All three. Forever and ad nauseous. And then some more.

—Joe Gores