“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of…”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“If you don’t have that hustle, you’re not getting in, and you need to be able to do it every single day.”— Brianna Wiest, lancasteronline.com
“When I was at Thought Catalog, we kind of had creative liberty that we could just write what we wanted, and that’s just what kept coming out. That’s just what I wanted to write about, what I was dealing with and what other people could maybe get something from.”— Brianna Wiest, lancasteronline.com
“Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.”— William Gibson, ideas.ted.com
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a tab…”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warne…”— David Mitchell, amazon.com
“You have to take the plunge. It’s easy to talk about the process, but it’s a confrontation. You’re confronting a blank page. It’s like drawing. You stare at a blank canvas and it goes from itself. You can call it a process, but you’re studying where this inspiration comes from. I don’t even have a s…”— Sam Shepard, sam-shepard.com
“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”— Thomas Mann, goodreads.com
“Gawker was like the id of America, and potential sources knew where a story like that — representing the voice of the creative underclass — could get published”— Hamilton Nolan, washingtonpost.com
“Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.”— Anne Boleyn, goodreads.com
“It just happens to be the way that I’m made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”— Haruki Murakami, 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
“Of many books, one feels, 'it could have been truly good, if the author's appetite for suffering had been greater.'”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait 2 years to know whether or not it was funny.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“Writing fills a gap: the best books are largely the work of people who couldn’t find anyone in the vicinity they could talk to.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“In order to have the energy to write about an idea for others, it helps not quite to understand it all yet yourself.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com