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  • #1
    Dee Henderson
    “I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.”
    Dee Henderson, The Healer

  • #2
    Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures
    “Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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    Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

  • #3
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #4
    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #5
    Natsuki Takaya
    “A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)”
    Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 1

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #7
    “Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”
    Margaret Chittenden

  • #8
    Junot Díaz
    “In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
    Junot Diaz

  • #9
    Red Haircrow
    “Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”
    Red Haircrow

  • #10
    Kim Addonizio
    “. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”
    Kim Addonizio

  • #11
    Besa Kosova
    “I wasn't born to cook or clean,
    but to read and write,
    if you don't like me the way I am,
    then go fly a kite.”
    Besa Kosova

  • #12
    “Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.”
    Jef Mallett

  • #13
    Cornelia Funke
    “All writers are insane!”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #14
    “Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
    A. Lee Martinez

  • #15
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.”
    Charlotte Brontë

  • #16
    Vladimir Nabokov
    Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #17
    William Faulkner
    “A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
    William Faulkner

  • #18
    Jarod Kintz
    “With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

  • #19
    Milan Kundera
    “The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #20
    Italo Calvino
    “Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.”
    Italo Calvino

  • #21
    Roman Payne
    “The lot of the bride
    to be wed before bed
    desired until rotten.
    The lot of the author
    to be read before bed
    admired then forgotten.”
    Roman Payne

  • #22
    “Writers turn dreams into print.”
    James A. Michener, Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing

  • #23
    Stephen  King
    “Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #24
    Coco J. Ginger
    “Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing.

    Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle.

    A writer who writes, knows peace, lives connected to truth.

    Not writing is ache, betrayal, death of the soul and imagination.”
    Jamie Weise

  • #25
    Charles Baudelaire
    “He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #26
    Jean Little
    “Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”
    Jean Little

  • #27
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.”
    L. M. Montgomery

  • #28
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “And on the pedestal these words appear:

    'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
    
Nothing beside remains.
    Round the decay

    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

    The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

  • #29
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Ozymandias"

    I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
    And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
    'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
    Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue With Other Poems

  • #30
    Natalie Goldberg
    “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
    Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within



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