Please list your favourites quotes by authors on-writing. I have listed 3, but list as many as you want.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand - George Orwell
Good writing is rewriting - Truman Capote
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts - Larry L. King
John Irving: It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
Or rather - the wrong words!
Mark Twain. It went something like this: "Writing is easy. One just has to leave out the right words.