On a recent trawl through the web, I chanced upon several quotes that in my opinion describes the temperament of a writer. Here they are in no particular order: "A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave." - Oscar Wilde "If you cannot annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." - Kingsley Amis "Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted." - Jules Renard "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury "The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads." - William Styron "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." - Gustave Flaubert "It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words as any good environmentally conscious writer would do."