Fast Five…

"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something – anything – down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head" - Anne Lamott

"Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter." - Neil Gaiman

"No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good." - Brenda Ueland

"When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’" - Stephen King

"Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write." - Natalie Goldberg