Introvert insight:

Coffee and music ... we need both!

Earl Nightingale, on dedication:

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.

The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

- Earl Nightingale.

Stephen King, on writing:

I try to create sympathy for my characters,

then turn the monsters loose.

- Stephen King.

Author humor:

Stephen King, on writing:

When asked: "How do you write?"

I invariably answer: "one word at a time,"

and the answer is invariably dismissed.

But that is all it is.

- Stephen King.

Joseph Conrad, on writing:

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

- Joseph Conrad.