Never stop when you are stuck. You may not be able to solve the problem, but turn aside and write something else. Do not stop altogether. Jeanette Winterson
Readers don’t want to guess the ending, but they don’t want to be so baffled that it annoys them. Sue Grafton
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves. David Wroblewski
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any. Orson Scott Card
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good." — William Faulkner