Time to be a more determined clown...

"Now writing anything is hard work, whether it's an epic trilogy or the last line of a limerick for a deodorant contest. But when it comes to the novel you have to work long and hard even to produce a bad one. This may help explain why there are so many more bad amateur poets around than there are bad amateur novelists. Writing a good poem may be as difficult as writing a good novel. It may even be harder. But any clown with a sharp pencil can write out a dozen lines of verse and call them a poem. Not just any clown can fill 200 pages with prose and call it a novel. Only the more determined clowns can get the job done." - Lawrence Block, in Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print

"I started writing music at the same age when all my friends were starting journals. That's way too long for me to be that honest. A song only has to be 3 minutes long. I can handle 3 minutes." - Amy Grant, in concert

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time." - Mark Twain