Some favorite writing quotes

• The road to hell is paved with adverbs. --Stephen King
• Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. -- Charles Scribner, Jr.
• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. --Benjamin Franklin
• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.--E. L. Doctorow
• There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. --Somerset Maugham