Olivia Campbell

“I think one of the best gifts you could offer me, as a writer, is to engage with my words, to tell me how they felt to you. To let me, for a moment, see my words through your eyes. And it feels like you read my words so carefully, that you were gentle with them, nurturing. I feel loved and seen by the way you responded. Thank you for caring for the words that rise from my soul.”
― Ashley Asti, I Have Waited for You: Letters from Prison

“Sometimes writing can take you to such dark places it can be nearly impossible to come back from; a part of you is left there, in the words you've bled onto paper, in the emotions you've let loose upon the page, and eventually, the world.”
― D Michael Hardy

“A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of the words. The words themselves have to be open to new ideas and suggestions, and the writer himself must have the audacity to attempt new things and to risk failure”
― Karl Wiggins, Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm

“If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.”
― Janice Hardy, Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft