"When I'm my own editor, there's very..." - Quote by Len Wein

“I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.”

“If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.”

“Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.”

“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.”

“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.”

“The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.”

“One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.”

“...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.”

“Art is purposiveness without purpose.”