“As far as I’m concerned, if somebody wants to make a movie [from my stories], I’m behind that idea and I’m always interested to see what they come up with.”— Stephen King, vulture.com
“There are other factors: Some of the recent things have been successful, like the miniseries of 11/22/63, and I think when that happens, people say to themselves, ‘If X succeeds, maybe Y will.’ But I’d like to think a lot of it is just the material, that people see something in these stories that wo…”— Stephen King, vulture.com
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“This poem is the poem I am writing because we aren’t speaking, and it is making my heart hurt so bad, that sometimes I can’t make it up off the floor.”— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, amazon.com
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, amazon.com
“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.”— David Byrne, imdb.com
“I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.”— Kate Morton, amazon.com
“Read a ton, write a ton. That’s how you’ll get it done.”— Stephanie Kuehnert, firstdraftwithsarahenni.tumblr.com
“There’s a holiness there. If that were to go away, I don’t think I would be interested in it, and I don’t think they would. We’re a real rock ’n’ roll band — always have been. And to us, in the era we came up in, it was a religion in a way. It was more than commerce, it wasn’t about that. It was abo…”— Tom Petty, latimes.com
“I always had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in, and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite.”— Tom Petty, latimes.com
“By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“'Why do you write?' 'So I can take my love for you and give it to the world'...Because you won't take it from me.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com