You know, I'm something of a writer myself

"I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."

- Jane Austen, Memoir of Jane Austen

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."

- Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

"I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards, every one of them."

- Garth Merenghi, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace