“The risks associated with being a commercialized artist and embarking on a typical album release, like endless promotion and touring, have nearly killed me.”— Michael Angelakos, pitchfork.com
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“My friend wanted to know what it's like being a writer, so I woke her every night at 3:00am and told her she wasn't good enough.”— Rebecca Sky, twitter.com
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn’t, I would die.”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com
“Don't use women as a writing technique if you're not trying to actually understand or value them.”— Ari Eastman, facebook.com
“I love this story I'm writing. It's the star in my sky, the sugar in my tea, the panic in my attacks.”— Lauren DeStefano, twitter.com
“When I write, I feel like I don't understand life. When I edit, I feel like I don't understand writing.”— Lauren DeStefano, twitter.com
“Sometimes you have to write the wrong thing before you figure out the right thing. So I've got step one covered...”— Lauren DeStefano, twitter.com
“People often ask me how to get started as a writer. My advice is always to find people who are also starting out, and work with them.”— John Green, youtube.com
“We don’t choose our stories. Our stories choose us, and if we don’t write them, if we ignore them, we are somehow diminished. But at the same time, I don’t feel that being a writer gives any of us the right to just let it rip. To disregard the feelings of the people surrounding us. So I take care. P…”— Honor Moore, danishapiro.com
“What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”— Beth Kephart, amazon.com
“Do you know, yet, what you're writing about? Do you know what is at stake?”— Beth Kephart, amazon.com
“One who writes memoir wishes to step into that light, not to see one's own face—that is not possible—but to feel the length of shadow cast by the night.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us—to write the first draft and then return for the second draft—we are doing the work of memory.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“For meaning is not "attached" to the detail by the memoirist; meaning is revealed.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com