The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. Colette
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. Cyril Connolly
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. Horace
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. Donald R. Marquis