- Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~Colette, Casual Chance, 1964
On plotting:
- A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ~Jean Luc Godard
On everything:
- An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ~Gustave Flaubert
