"Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up..." Charles Dickens
When it comes to plot, there are only three things every one has to have: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Billy Mernit
Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events. Louise Glück
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” E. B. White