19/11/2015-Edited

Hiiii :) As you can see, I've decided to renew my profile. But since I don't think I'm an interesting subject enough to fill in this page, I think filling it with quotes should benefit you and me the most. Either for writing or inspiration. ;)

And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
– William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
– C. J. Cherryh

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.
– Sidney Sheldon

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
– Henry David Thoreau

If you have other things in your life—family, friends, good productive day work—these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
– David Brin

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
– Edgar Rice Burroughs

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!
– Ray Bradbury

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
– Douglas Adams (Okay...)

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

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.
– Philip K. Dick (Lol, most likely true X'D )

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.
– Erica Jong

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
– William Faulkner

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
– Gustave Flaubert (That's me...)

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
– William Faulkner

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
– Emily Dickinson (Good reference for imagery, imo)

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
– Alice Munro

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
– Larry Niven

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
– Richard Wright

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
– E. B. White

Fiction is about stuff that’s screwed up.
– Nancy Kress (Well, fiction is what partly taken from life; and life is mostly screwed up X') )

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
– Elmore Leonard (Personally, I like this one)

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
– Orson Scott Card

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary—it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
– Somerset Maugham

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
– Edgar Rice Burroughs

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
– Truman Capote (Well, technically...)

If there's a book you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

– Toni Morrison

Here is a lesson to creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestites hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
– Kurt Vonnegut (Haha I love this guy X'D )

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
– W. Somerset Maugham (lol)

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent, he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

– Harper Lee

And last but not least, my personal favourites:

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
– Somerset Maugham

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
– Barbara Kingsolver

As someone who is struggling to write ideas on paper (or online if you insist), I can understand what these great writers had been through. There are many kinds of writers thus many kinds of writing styles and personal preferences. We can't give the readers exactly what they want, but we can surprise them with what we have (And that's you RobinRocks X') You are one of the most talented writer I've seen here, just saying). But there's not only RobinRocks, there is George D.Valier, Butterfish, Iggycat... Everyone is equipped with a writing talent as long as you're brave to create and tell your own stories. As a fellow writer, let's strive to be the author we want to be and do our best, yeah!