“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked… That’s the moment you may be starting to get…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, globalcitizen.org
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresi…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“We don't just read sentences, we also make meaning out of how they move.”— Juliet Patterson, iowasummerwritingfestival.org
“Writing is hard....Coal mining is harder. 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
“Knowing what you're trying to say is always important, but knowing what you've said is crucial.”— Juliet Patterson, iowasummerwritingfestival.org
“Although letters seem to facilitate communication and proximity, they produce instead a distance in which writers find the chance to become writers.”— Vincent Kaufmann, amazon.com
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s th…”— Ray Bradbury, books.google.com
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Dreams come in all different shapes, and believe it or not giving up is no way to achieve them. Your dream may be different to mine, or his, hers, the rest of the world, or even your families but it is just as attainable as any. Keep working, keep striving and keep challenging yourself to achieve gr…”— Amy Kennedy, satiricalwords.tumblr.com
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it.”— Charles Bukowski, allpoetry.com
“great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com