A quintet of fine quotes or proverbs

1.The best writing is re-writing.-E.B.White
2.Who hears the fishes when they cry?It will not be forgotten by some memory that we were contemporaries.-Henry David Thoreau
3.On the plus side,death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.-Woody Allen
4.Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.-E.L.Doctorow
5.There are no true friends in politics.We are all sharks circling,and waiting,for traces of blood to appear in the water.-Alan Clark