Hope everyone is having a fantastic week so far! If you haven't already done so, don't forget to chime in on the CSR Discussion on "Wrangler Butts" by Reddirtwriter! For today's installment of the blog, I have a list of some great quotes compiled by Cia. I hope you all enjoy them as much as I did!

Writing Quotes
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world -- they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
- C. N. Bovee

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you have other things in your life -- family, friends, good productive day work -- these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
- David Brin

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
- Harlan Ellison

Editing Quotes
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
- Truman Capote

It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
- C. J. Cherryh

Never throw up on an editor.
- Ellen Datlow

Half my life is an act of revision.
- John Irving

[Editors] drive us nuts. We go from near-worshipful groveling when we submit to bitter cursing when they reject us.
- Ken Rand

Publishing Quotes
When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.
- Sherwood Anderson

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil - but there is no way around them.
- Isaac Asimov

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
- John Campbell

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing -- to find honest men to publish it -- and to get sensible men to read it.
- Charles Caleb Cotton

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
- John Scalzi