“When in doubt, write. To celebrate, write. As a balm, write. When you mess up, write. To escape, write. When the world burns, write.”— Quiara Alegría Hudes, twitter.com
“When you feel the instinct to apologize to your oppressors, don't do it. Hold your tongue, grab a pen, whip up an ink storm. Write.”— Quiara Alegría Hudes, twitter.com
“Attempt to raise the sunken sensations of this distant past; your self will become the stronger for it, your loneliness will open up and become a twilit dwelling in which the noise other people make is only heard far off. And if from this turn inwards, from this submersion in your own world, there c…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...admit to yourself whether you would die if it should be denied you to write. This above all: ask yourself in your night's quietest hour: must I write?”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“There are so many opportunities to reveal race in literature— whether one is conscious of it or not. But writing non-colorist literature about black people is a task I have found both liberating and hard.”— Toni Morrison, 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
“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”— Raymond Carver, nytimes.com
“...a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.”— Tobias Wolff, amazon.com
“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don’t care who’s listening.”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”— John Green, amazon.com
“There will come a day when all that seems permanent now will be a distant memory. Time is a very powerful thing and change is a unavoidable concept, but you will always be who you are, even if it is different to who you were way back then. Fighting change will not stop it happening, let your mind re…”— Amy Kennedy, satiricalwords.tumblr.com