“For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.”— Junot Dìaz, youtube.com
“In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.”— Junot Dìaz, cnn.com
“We had to be creative growing up. Without siblings around, we were forced to entertain ourselves. Whether it was through drawing, writing, or building something epic with Legos, our minds were always turning as kids, and it hasn’t stopped now that we’re older.”— Jay Miletsky, puckermob.com
“But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“The writer is much more fortunate than the filmmaker, who is almost always doomed to show too much... including, in nine cases out of ten, the zipper running up the monster's back.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around. It will forget your birthday and wreck your car. Your career will blow you off if you call it too much. It's never going…”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“He went on and on about how weird that was. He pointed out that people were really starting to know my name and asked me if I 'could believe it.' 'Yes.' I said. I had worked for over a decade to get to this moment. I hadn't just dropped my script in someone's lap on a train. 'Can you?' I asked him.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Good or bad, the reality is most people become 'famous' or get 'great jobs' after a very, very long tenure shoveling shit and not because they handed their script to someone on the street.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“I wrote this book after my kids went to sleep. I wrote this book on subways and on airplanes and in between setups while I shot a television show. I wrote this book from scribbled thoughts I keep in the Notes app on my iPhone and conversations I had in my own head before I went to sleep. I wrote it…”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Writing is hard work. It's smoothing and polishing and tucking in the elbows of each paragraph. It's voice and technique and practice. It's mastering style with form, power with control. And I think I know what it's all for. It's for getting closer to the page. It's for getting closer to yourself, t…”— Alex Magnin, thoughtcatalog.com
“This Spanish wine has all the dryness of rattlesnake skin abandoned between the forked thoughts of an Arizona moon. Moon tinged with bruises on one side. If this wine truly is a snake then it has silk scales and the warmth of a deep kiss pressed by a complete stranger against the lips of last night'…”— Alan Britt, amazon.com
“I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I don’t know what brings broken people together maybe damage seeks out damage the way stains on a mattress halo into one another the way stains on a mattress bleed into each other.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com