“You’ve got to write again. Just as daisies bloom as daisies and roses bloom as roses—you must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“I think representation is exceedingly important. I think women of colour in the writing world are an absolute need.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“I think little girls of colour need as much representation as they can get, and the more women of colour that exist not just in literature but in the arts world in general, the more chance they have of being represented authentically. I use my voice to give words to the silent. I shout because I HAD…”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“The biggest gift for any writer in the world, is to be read, and for the words they have written to help and move people. To be able to be part of a thing so much greater than myself is humbling and I am nothing but grateful that so many wonderful people have read and found healing in my words.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“Writing helps you know what is going on inside you. When you write, you catch delicate, fleeting thoughts that you might otherwise dismiss.”— Carrie Barron, amazon.com
“That’s why I write the kind of books I do! To help girls know they have worth, and will be okay in the end - like me!”— Meg Cabot, twitter.com
“The Ambitious Writer There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed a desire to become a "great" writer. When asked to define "great" he said "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream,…”— HungryPineapple, reddit.com
“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.”— Nora Ephron, huffingtonpost.com
“Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean,…”— Nora Ephron, telegraph.co.uk
“Writing requires courage, audacity. I'm not suggesting that there is something heroic about writing, but I do believe that to commit words and ideas to the page demands something of the writer.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“Up and coming writers, I warmly urge you to not read Goodreads reviews of your book. The site is for readers, not writers. Spare yourself.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“I want to say something about opinion writing. It is not meant to be universal. It is not meant to address every experience. Opinion writers cannot not should not account for the whole of human experience in an essay. If you want to see something written about, write that essay. If you have an exper…”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“I am curious, though, why no one is talking about all the bad literary men.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“I don't have a writing routine, really, other than to waste a lot of time before I write. And do a lot of writing in my head before I sit at the computer. It's a little embarrassing to not have a routine like fancy writers do but I also am okay with it.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“The biggest gift for any writer in the world, is to be read, and for the words they have written to help and move people.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com