“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
“Maybe I just write every single word I wish you would say to me.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“I cannot simply stare at an empty paper without my pen bleeding on it.”— J. Bolen, janicebolen.tumblr.com
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Writers are always looking for the secret. And sometimes someone knows someone or whatever but mostly you just need to write.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear.”— Annie Dillard, amazon.com
“The lighter a thought, the more it rises, and becomes profound by rising — vertiginously — above the thick marshes of conviction, opinion, established thought.”— Frederic Gros, amazon.com
“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your versi…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Custom content is laborious, so the future is fewer pieces of content that drive bigger consumption and views, primed to perform because of the data, analytics and creativity behind it.”— Geoff Schiller, digiday.com
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”— Zadie Smith, faculty.sunydutchess.edu
“There’s something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day you’re a bit more defensive.”— Alex Turner, uncut.co.uk
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”— Albert Camus, goodreads.com
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.”— Philip K Dick, thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com
“Write a bad song. Write a very bad song. But write a song. Then write another.”— John Mayer, twitter.com
“My process is like a whirlwind. If the words come I’ll stop someone mid-sentence and run for a pen and paper–and I’m the worst writer I know, I never carry a pen or paper.”— Janne Robinson, redflag.org
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”— E. L. Doctorow, en.wikiquote.org
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com