From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill

I wrote a few children's books. Not on purpose.
- Steven Wright

I get a lot of letters from people. They say: "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it.
- Ruth Rendell

If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
- Irvin S. Cobb

If Moses were alive today he’d come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and spend the next five years trying to get them published.
- Anonymous