If you wish to be a writer; write!
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
The best writing is rewriting.
I'm not a great writer, I'm a great rewriter.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.