Writer Quote by D.A. Botta

“There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.”

— Lydia Larue

“Having compared the novel-reader with an infant and a primitive, one can go further and call him a psychopath; and this I shall shortly…

— Frank Kermode

“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.”

— Bohumil Hrabal

“When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad…

— CJ Heck

“Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften,…

— Anne Lamott

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I write for the unborn.”

— Hortense Caruthers

“Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.”

— William Faulkner

“She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an…

— Tor Udall

“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily,…

— Joan Didion