“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new under…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I wake up every day and spend all day doing the one thing I love: creating.”— Chrissy Stockton, chrissystockton.com
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.”— Lady GaGa, cnn.com
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they chang…”— Steve Jobs, ibtimes.co.uk
“A touch of madness can unleash the great potential we have as artists or as human beings. By creating things and putting all our madness in one project, we can create a masterpiece. By putting our madness to good use, we can help others and help ourselves.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“This rocking chair is so pointy, it's not giving me any room to express myself.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads”— Erica Jong, books.google.com
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”— George Orwell, orwell.ru
“I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com