"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
--Toni Morrison

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
--Isaac Asimov

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."
--Virginia Woolf