“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn’t, I would die.”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com
“Everybody cries. "Even writers?" No, writers emit a high pitched wail of pained despair that causes whales to swim backwards for one week.”— Lauren DeStefano, twitter.com
“Writers are vacuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps.”— Garrison Keillor, amazon.com
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“When you’re young and you’re writing you shouldn’t try to philosophize and say what everything ‘is’. If you’re any kind of healthy thinker, your definites today will betray you tomorrow. Instead, write how you feel, write those things that you know without fighting to know. Tell your honest, immedia…”— Adam Gnade, lungs-paper-frail.tumblr.com
“Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I sometimes look at this typewriter and wonder when it's going to run out of good words. I don't want that to happen.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print--the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively…”— John Edward Williams, amazon.com
“There was an intimacy in writing that was somehow absent from personal interactions.”— Sarah Lotz, 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
“A short story is a different thing all together – a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”— E.B. White, 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
“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
“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