“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it’s something…”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to sca…”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t…If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”— Nikki Giovanni, tor.com
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn’t change them, since I believed them at the time.”— Jorge Amado, amazon.com
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”— Flannery O’Connor, goodreads.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 write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.”— Joss Whedon, articles.chicagotribune.com