“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.” — Stephanie Lennox Copy Share Image
“All honest effort produces lessons. We must embrace every type of learning, even failure.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're… — Buffy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.” — Buffy Andrews Copy Share Image
“WRITE. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them RIGHT.” — Nico J. Genes Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then… — Molière Copy Share Image
“I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
“Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
“A writer’s amulets include explication, free association, parallelism, antithesis, and epiphany to create a silhouette of that which heretofore did not exist… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The irony that all writers confront and must overcome is that the writer is afraid to commence, frightened to finish what is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Because there are a million thoughts that never sleep and a million more that wake up as each second passes by... And… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.” — Buffy Andrews Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
“I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high,… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story. Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end… — Mary O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly when alone with your… — Karen Luellen Copy Share Image
“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went “Poor sod.… — Ash Gray Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The writer sat besides the weeping Gilgamesh, witnessed the sinking of the unsinkable ships. He was there, and he wasn't. Like a… — Jebreel Nahaary Copy Share Image