Deployment Quote by Clint Van Winkle

“I soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

“It was funny about writing. It was like flying or driving or playing an instrument. When you were doing it like you were supposed…

— Jennifer Niven

“He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.”

— Anne Lamott

“He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of his family.…

— Terry Pratchett

“What sense the universe had made to them had disappeared with my words, and they were unsure of how to fit what they’d heard…

— Ann Leckie

“Then their conversation turned to work and movies. I tried to contribute, but I had trouble focusing on the words. They just floated into…

— Neil Strauss

“Is there anything more annoying than machismo?”

— Nora Roberts

“You might have written. Every bit of your daily life interests me. I wrote this day fortnight but it was returned. Tampered with.”

— Edna O'Brien

“Written words were so much harsher than spoken.”

— A. Lynden Rolland

“More than anything else I wanted to get inside my readers’ defenses, wanted to rip them and ravish them and change them forever with…

— Stephen King

“There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way. "Fine.”

— Ilona Andrews