Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of…

— Harper Lee

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story…

— Harlan Ellison

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have…

— Rebecca West

You have to write the book that wants to be written,

— Madeleine L'Engle

Read, read read. Read everything.

— William Faulkner

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

— Elmore Leonard

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

— Ernest Hemingway

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

— William Faulkner

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

— Philip K. Dick

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline

— Vince Lombardi

No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

— Wyndham Lewis

Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

— Matt Smith

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

— Charlaine Harris