If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.
One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.
...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.