“I think that book has helped so many of us stick to our guns and keep at it. That’s a book that was so empowering. He was so eloquent and incisive in that book. Here he is, larger-than-life Stephen King, and yet there he is across from you, telling you to chill out and work.”— Caroline Kepnes, ew.com
“I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you…”— Madeleine L’Engle, goodreads.com
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”— Flannery O’Connor, goodreads.com
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting hap…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget…I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really d…”— David Foster Wallace, goodreads.com
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, you…”— William Goldman, amazon.com
“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”— Raymond Carver, nytimes.com
“Writers too often are afraid to experiment or think beyond the norms of the literary culture they're swimming in.”— Jane Friedman, 0s-1s.com
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, you…”— William Goldman, amazon.com
“...a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.”— Tobias Wolff, amazon.com