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Staying Motivated

"As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out." —Mark Twain

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." 
—Gustave Flaubert

"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new." 
—Samuel Johnson

"The story...must be a conflict, and specifically, a conflict between the forces of good and evil within a single person." —Maxwell Anderson

"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!" —Ray Bradbury

"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil." —Truman Capote

"My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see. That - and no more - and it is everything." —Joseph Conrad

"Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story." —F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The historian records, but the novelist creates." —E. M. Forster