“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”— Joan Didion, nytimes.com
“You write a poem to discover what you’re thinking, feeling, where the truth is. You don’t begin by saying, now this is the truth.”— Maxine Kumin, amazon.com
“I think that people should carry notebooks with them at all times just for those moments because there’s nothing worse than having that moment and finding that you’re unable to set it down except with a knife on your leg or something.”— Margaret Atwood, quotemadness.com
“Writing is a notoriously bad life decision if one has goals of security, but I guess that, in order to fly, you have to lose touch with the ground.”— Torre Deroche, fearfuladventurer.com
“Even if you hit the literary jackpot of advance money, $200,000 divided by the years it usually takes to write and promote a single work is still likely to be a monetary downgrade to flipping burgers full-time.”— Torre Deroche, fearfuladventurer.com
“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don’t care who’s listening.”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.”— Dejan Stojanovic, amazon.com
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”— Frank Herbert, sinanvural.com
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.”— Joss Whedon, articles.chicagotribune.com
“To write is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.”— Marguerite Duras, amazon.com
“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.”— Dejan Stojanovic, amazon.com
“You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them … And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”— David Foster Wallace, medium.com
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and s…”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”— Frank Herbert, sinanvural.com
“There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.”— Malala Yousafzai, dailymail.co.uk