Tracy

“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."

(Casual Chance, 1964)”
― Colette

“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
― Enrique Jardiel Poncela

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
― Franz Kafka

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics