Emily Rose

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades