“Kaur is, in industry parlance, a hack. And while most of us who write for a living believe ourselves to be hacks, at least most of us don’t run around saying the ultimate goal of our work is to be blown up to poster size.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“I suppose an aesthetics-first approach to poetry is the perfect strategy for an aesthetics-first platform.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“My therapist suggested I write letters to all the people I hate and set fire to them. I tried it and feel a lot better... But now what do I do with all these letters?”— kbox, reddit.com
“One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com
“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“If you’re angry, you don’t have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead… write one. I know you’re at least a little bit angry with me. And when you’re done with your poem, decipher it as if you’d just found it printed in a textbook and know…”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“Because when words are written with feelings and the soul, they do not forget that their destination is the ocean of a text, and that sooner or later they have to arrive there.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“Every word leaves a memory in your heart – and it the sum of these memories that form sentences, paragraphs, books.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances—from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons wil…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, en.wikiquote.org
“Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.”— Gloria Naylor, amazon.com
“In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms—all of them—may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.”— Rod Serling, books.google.com
“I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.”— Rod Serling, books.google.com