I think we have a lot of this scattered throughout the forum but I can’t recall a single topic that collects all of these.

So basically… post the best quotes on writing, by writers or anything related to it.

For instance, from here we get a good quote from Harlan Ellison:

It is the writer’s obligation to his craft to go to bed angry, and to rise up angrier the next day. To fight for the words because, at final moments, that’s all a writer has to prove his right to exist as a spokesman for his times. To retain the sense of smell; to know what one smells is the corruption of truth and not the perfumes of Araby.