How vain it is
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Go to hell
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
~ Winston Churchill
Turn it into glory
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
~ William Barclay
Writing is like sex
Writing is like sex. First, you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
~ Virginia Woolf