"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand."
-- Chinese proverb

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living."
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen

"The writer is by nature a dreamer -- a conscious dreamer."
-- Carson McCullers

"A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all."
-- William Sansom

"I shall live bad if I do not write and I shall write bad if I do not live."
-- Francoise Sagan

"Writers have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place."
-- Wright Morris

"Define the universe and give three examples."
-- Anonymous Graffiti