Juliet

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
― Voltaire

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau