quotes for the week: writing

 Writing is like driving at night,  You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.   E.L. Doctorow

Writing books is the closest men come to childbearing.    Norman Mailer

A sentence should read like its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.      Henry David Thoreau

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals, he seeks to establish a relationship.    John Steinbeck