"Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write."

“You write to be read. That is the bottom line.”

“Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.”

“The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.”

“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.”

“Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.”

“To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.”

Source : Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.226, Da Capo Press

“Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.”

“In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and the published writer didn't.”

Source : Judy Delton (1985). “The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them”, Betterway Books