Paula

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
― Kurt Vonnegut