“I wake up every day and spend all day doing the one thing I love: creating.”— Chrissy Stockton, chrissystockton.com
“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you und…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.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
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting hap…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”— Anne Frank, amazon.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
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”— Ernest Hemingway, goodreads.com
“How do I hire the obstacle course from Double Dare for our writers retreat?”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.”— Junot Dìaz, youtube.com
“In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.”— Junot Dìaz, cnn.com
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Make love like you have no secrets like you’ve never been left never been hurt like the world don’t owe you a single wretched thing.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com
“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally…”— Nick Cave, goodreads.com
“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.”— Iain Thomas, goodreads.com
“I don’t pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.”— Nayyirah Waheed, goodreads.com