"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader- not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." 

~ E.L. Doctorow

"If you tell me, it's an essay.  If you show me, it's a story." ~  Barbara Greene

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.  No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader."  ~ Robert Frost

"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."  ~ Richard Harding Davis

"If a book comes from the heart, it will continue to reach other hearts."  ~ Thomas Carlyle

"A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories." ~ John Irving

"A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then." ~ C.S. Lewis

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."  ~ Roald Dahl