Write the tests first, or second, or third. But write the…

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

— Kevin J. Anderson

“It does not take God one second to re-write your ugly past .”

— Osunsakin Adewale

“Most programmers write too many tests.”

— Anonymous

“But I can write my tests later", you say. No, you can't. Not really. Oh, you can write some tests later. You can even…

— Robert C Martin

“After prototyping, start again with TDD instead of trying to go back, and write tests for the prototype. Even”

— Kevin Harvey

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the…

— Elmore Leonard

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to…

— Craig Mazin

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,…

— Ishmael Reed

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next…

— Robert Reed

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro