Ernest Hemingway

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”

Orson Scott Card

“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

Frans Kafka

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”

Anaïs Nin

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”

Stephen King

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

Junot Diaz

“A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”

Robert Cormier

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon”.

Ben Franklin

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing”.

Voltaire

“Writing is the painting of the voice”!

C.S. Lewis

“You can make anything by writing”.

Stephen King

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will”.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

“Write for yourself and not what you think people want to read”.

Anne Rice

“If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less”.

Anne Lamott

“Write the best, most amazing book you can, the wisest, most honest, most human book you have inside”.

John Green

“Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while telling it”.

Natalie Goldberg

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

Brandon Sanderson

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think but to give you questions to think upon”.

Sara Zarr

“My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through”.

Alysia Harris

"The moment you feel like you have to prove yourself to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away."