"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all."
-Philip Pullman

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary; how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I write only when I can write- when I must write."
-Robert Frost

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possiblities. Truth isn't."
-Mark Twain

"There is more treasure in books than all the treasure on Treasure Island."
-Walt Disney (Not really an author, but I couldn't resist!)