“No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these a…”— Robin Williams, John Keating, amazon.com
“It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I hav…”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“Of this there can be no question — creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity. A person trudging through the wilderness of creation who does not know this — who does not swallow this — is lost. He who does not crave that roofless place eternity shoul…”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“Like the knights of the Middle Ages, there is little the creatively inclined person can do but to prepare himself, body and spirit, for the labor to come — for his adventures are all unknown. In truth, the work itself is the adventure. And no artist could go about this work, or would want to, with l…”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“I have one rule about writing and it’s this: don’t write about how hard it is to write.”— Rob Plenty, actuallyitsrobpentydotorg.com
“I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to…”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE NEEDS MY INPUT. YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE NEEDS MY INPUT. YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE NEEDS MY INPUT. YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE NEEDS MY INPUT. YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE NEEDS MY INPUT. YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE NEEDS MY INPUT”— kelly catchpole, medium.com
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”— George Orwell, orwell.ru