Motivational Issues

Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.
Stephen King

Stick up your electricity bill/telephone account/last bank statement.

"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything." -John Irving

This one has always been a good motivator for me. Merciless, but sometimes that's what the situation calls for

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
-- Jack London

"Get those (350 pages of) revisions back to me within a week."

My agent.