William Faulkner

Art is simpler than people think because there is so little to write about. All the moving things are eternal in man’s history and have been written before, and if a man writes hard enough, sincerely enough, humbly enough, and with the unalterable determination never never never to be quite satisfied with it, he will repeat them, because art like poverty takes care of its own, shares its bread.

Ernest Hemingway

What a writer should try to do is to make something which will be so written that it will become a part of the experience of those who read him.