“We all deal with fear of loneliness. But I think this fear dies a natural death when it reveals itself as universal. All living creatures are meant to be entwined, even plants, even the small particles in dust. We spend though our entire lives learning the natural skill that society lets us forget:…”— Ioana Cristina Casapu, ioanacasapu.com
“When a writer doesn't write it doesn't mean they don't have time, for they can write anywhere and anytime, on tissues or on phone Notes, emblazon words on a passing cloud. No, it can only mean one thing: they can't handle their own thoughts, can't face their own realities, and so they refuse to let…”— Rachel Jean Matela, facebook.com
“Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“The secret, I believe, in writing well about trouble, is choosing carefully the kind of character who will be most troubled by his/her trouble. What is a trial to one person, might be downright relaxing to another. The trouble in your story must push the character to a point where s/he will make a d…”— Aaron Gwyn, glimmertrain.com
“How often do we approach revision fearing what we’ll discover about our stories? What if at the moment when we begin revision, we allow ourselves to dwell most significantly and earnestly in the possibilities of our stories?”— Karen Outen, glimmertrain.com
“The writer is always a careful observer, but if you are constantly evacuating your imagination, your eyes and ears grow even sharper, and you lean forward with hunger for every experience, knowing that it will offer up a card to add to your hand. This is, after all, a gambler's trade. All in. Always…”— Benjamin Percy, glimmertrain.com
“Revisiting old work and wanting immediately to baptize it with fire is perfectly natural, perfectly healthy... but beyond merely accepting our old badness and taking solace in how far we've come, we ought sometimes to run back into the flames and drag re-writable ideas from the rubble.”— Trevor Crown, glimmertrain.com
“I loved mornings—the only time of the day that I was free from the prison of words.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, narrativemagazine.com
“When it's 3am and you can't sleep, open your window or step outside your house. Feel the crisp, cold air on your skin. Take a deep breath and watch as you create clouds when you breathe out. Look at the dark blue sky that sits above your head and marvel at how beautiful it is. Try to find the moon a…”— Unknown, kristennwalterss.tumblr.com
“Poetry writing is an immensely personal experience. Many people don't realize a poem is an extension of the poet. Such is the attachment that reading a poem may be interpreted as voyeuristic. Even if a poet practices to be published, for money, or does so in private - we do so for ourselves. We writ…”— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.com
“A perfect studio has always told me that the person is afraid of his own mind and is reflecting in his outward space an inward need for control. Creativity is just the opposite: it is a loss of control.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.com
“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.org
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want. How many of us with our big salaries are actually secure anyway?”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.com
“as a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, i know they have fallen in love with my mind. having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. art may be the only space a woman can be whole without being seen.”— Nayyirah Waheed, nayyirahwaheed.tumblr.com
“Fiction can remind us — and because of the blood-sport nature of politics, we constantly need reminding — that the players in politics are first human beings.”— John Williams, nytimes.com
“Nothing is inevitable in history, media, or culture — but literacy is the only thing that's even close. Bet for better video, bet for better speech, bet for better things we can't imagine — but if you bet against text, you will lose.”— Tim Carmody, kottke.org
“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”— Chuck Palahniuk, barnesandnoble.com