“I’m not a school counselor. I’m not a therapist. I only have as many hours in a day as anyone else. I edit this publication and I write because I need to, but if I looked at everything and responded to even one person, then I would have to respond to everyone and the work wouldn’t happen. A couple o…”— Tavi Gevinson, thecut.com
“When girls write to us about how inadequate they feel and how shitty Instagram makes them feel and how cool other people look and how lame they are, I just want to be like, No, no, no, no! This is all strategic. You’re doing great. Nothing exciting is happening over here except ambitious people in a…”— Tavi Gevinson, thecut.com
“There’s this illusion that the internet is a democracy or a meritocracy, and that if your voice isn’t rising to the top immediately, it’s some problem with you.”— Tavi Gevinson, thecut.com
“I really love working from home and then emerging into the world at night. I don’t get ready until it’s 6 p.m. and I’m on my way to meet someone.”— Tavi Gevinson, thecut.com
“Book sales are important because that’s how writers try to make a living. But no one can or should buy every book. Libraries are vital.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“If you ever wonder "should I write to an author to tell them I love their work?" The answer is always yes. You are not annoying them. You are fueling them.”— Mackenzi Lee, twitter.com
“Smart writers understand that writers aren’t any smarter than anyone else.”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.com
“there are a lot of bad stories out there doing real harm in the world it’s up to us to tell better ones”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.com
“She said, ‘You cannot hide forever, though you may try. I’ve seen you in the kitchen, in the garden. I’ve seen the things you have sewn – curtains of dawn, twilight blankets and dresses for the sisters like a garden of stars. I have heard the stories you tell. You are the one who transforms, who cre…”— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com
“But the woman came to her then. The woman with hair of red like roses, hair of white like snowfall. She was young and old. She was blind and could see everything. She spoke softly, in whispers, but her voice carried across the mountain ranges like sleeping giants, the cities lit like fairies and the…”— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com
“remember. you were a writer before you ever put word to paper. just because you were not writing externally. does not mean you were not writing internally.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“when creating. be kind to your doubt. hear it out. thank it for its concern. and reassure it that you are an artist. and risk is essential.”— Nayyirah Waheed, twitter.com
“Stephen King is a far, far better writer at thirty than I was at thirty, or at forty. I am entitled to hate him a little bit for this.”— John D. Macdonald, amazon.com
“I don’t think all writers are sad. I think it’s the other way around —– all sad people write.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“I remember them all. They’re all my friends, and some of them are my lovers, if you know what I mean.”— Stephen King, vulture.com
“Now, what Hemingway said is that the best thing that can happen to a writer is when they pay you a lot of money for it but never make the movie. I’ve never felt that way, I’m always anxious to see what they do with it.”— Stephen King, vulture.com
“This is how writers fall in love: they feel complicated together and then they talk about it.”— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com