Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't…

“When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“Clarity of purpose often comes from wandering through mistakes”

— Joseph A. Anderson

“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“Writing Skinny Chris was a very odd process – it felt like I had brought back to life a dead man and then killed…

— Carla H. Krueger

“After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven't read the book…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.”

— Julie Rodelli

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of…

— Joan Miro

“When you read a good book, you feel something like this in the depths of your soul: You will definitely re-read this book many…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Then, at last, sitting on her stretcher-bed, she took from the very bottom of her pack an old peacock-blue scarf folded around a heavy,…

— Anonymous

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

— Ken MacLeod

“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best…

— Roy Peter Clark

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

— Virginia Woolf