“There is nothing to writing. All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”— Ernest Hemingway, cambridgeblog.org
“[Discussing his, and the other Beat Writer's style of writing poetry] First thought, best thought.”— Allen Ginsberg, en.wikiquote.org
“I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore…”— Allen Ginsberg, writing.upenn.edu
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends. And I am sorry my conscience called in sick again.”— Fall Out Boy, play.spotify.com
“I wake up every day and spend all day doing the one thing I love: creating.”— Chrissy Stockton, chrissystockton.com
“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you und…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.”— Lady GaGa, cnn.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
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”— Ernest Hemingway, goodreads.com
“I feel like that will only change when the way people view writing on the internet period changes. ‘Sad Girl Twitter’ and Alt-Lit exist because they are types of writing that only exist on the internet and are only popular because of the internet. And for somebody like Jonathan Franzen who denies th…”— Mira Gonzalez, thecreativeindependent.com
“It’s hard because you can’t really make money off just tweeting or instagramming.”— Mira Gonzalez, thecreativeindependent.com