“Think...of the world that you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you like. Whether it is memory of your own childhood or longing for your own future - just be attentive towards what rises up inside you, and place it above everything that you notice round about.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“It is good that for the moment you are going into a profession which will make you independent and mean you only have yourself to rely on, in every sense. Have the patience to wait and see whether your inmost life feels confined by the form of this occupation. I consider it a very difficult and a ve…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“With regard to any such disquisition, review or introduction, trust yourself and your instincts; even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually, over time, lead you to other insights.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Finally, there came a time when I decided to ignore all the advice I had read and do the only thing I know how to do, which is write. I wrote what I felt like writing, when I felt like writing, how I felt like writing. I jumped all over the place. None of my chapters had numbers. I didn’t take notes…”— Roxane Gay, nanowrimo.org
“When I write these notes, it is not to describe my own life. I am writing a study of the soul as I observe myself closely and use myself as an anatomical testing-ground. It would therefore be wrong to look on these notes as confessions.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“For he who creates must be a world of his own and everything within himself and in the natural world that he has elected to follow.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Attempt to raise the sunken sensations of this distant past; your self will become the stronger for it, your loneliness will open up and become a twilit dwelling in which the noise other people make is only heard far off. And if from this turn inwards, from this submersion in your own world, there c…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: ‘Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 1/16 is born.’ Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so lon…”— Charles Babbage, en.wikiquote.org
“When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.”— John Wesley, amazon.com
“Falling in love feels amazing, but it's also terrifying. The moment you admit to loving someone, you admit to having a lot to lose.”— Mandy Len Catron, ted.com
“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“I didn't write them for money; I wrote them because it occurred to me to write them. I have a marketable obsession. There are madmen and madwomen in padded cells the world over who are not so lucky.”— Stephen King, amazon.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 thought you could write something about me that men can't – What I want written – I do not know – I have no definite idea of what it should be. – but a woman who has lived many things and who sees lines and colors as an expression of living – might say something that a man can't – I feel there is…”— Georgia O’Keeffe, en.wikiquote.org
“...admit to yourself whether you would die if it should be denied you to write. This above all: ask yourself in your night's quietest hour: must I write?”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com