“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or… — Jamie Michaels Copy Share Image
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The pain in my hip was just short of apocalyptic. And the first five hundred words were uniquely terrifying—it was as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“The main thing is to WRITE. Some days it might be 2000 words. Some days you might tinker with two sentences until… — L.K. Madigan Copy Share Image
“There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such… — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
“I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley” — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
