Quote by Joan Didion

“Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more…

— Percival Everett

“I thought that if I could ever do a background check on myself, I knew exactly what I'd do with it. I wouldn't even…

— Catherine Lacey

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

“You can only write well ,what you have lived.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this…

— Elif Batuman

“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was…

— Kara Martinelli

“Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry,…

— Bonnie Friedman

“Through the years the swirl of a pen, click of a key, and the idea of a story have been my deepest passion. I…

— Sai Marie Johnson

“I had never considered myself to be a dishonest person, hating the idea that I was capable of such mendacity and deceit, but the…

— John Boyne

“Everything you know is past. And with that disgusting arrogance of knowing the past, one cannot know something novel.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I wanted to see the world, to work in all professions , to meet new people, to be whatever I ever imagined, to tell…

— Anonymous

“Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start - the way a map that shows to much…

— Haruki Murakami