James P. Gannon

"You never know exactly what you think until you write it down. If your thinking isn't clear, your writing won't be either. If you can't reduce your thoughts to writing, you don't know what you think."

Donald Murray

"Writing is the most disciplined form of thinking. It allows us to be precise, to stand back and examine what we have thought, to see what our words really mean, to see if they stand up to our critical eye, to see if they make sense and can be understood by others."

Madeleine L'Engle

"It gives me fresh courage to know of the massive revision Dostoyevsky made of all his books--the hundreds of pages that got written and thrown out before one was kept."

Lynn Freed

"I'm not sure I would consider writing...a process. It is more of an act of will, at least it is to start with, when one has to coax something out of a state of terror and panic."

Mark Twain

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."

And from non-writers....

Charlie Mingus

"Anybody can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple."