Harlan Ellison....

"People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it."

Angus Wilson....

"All fiction is for me a kind of magic and trickery - a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't."

P. G. Wodehouse....

"Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."