Beautiful Quote by Leigh Bardugo

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

“...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your…

— John Geddes

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

— Allison Pearson

“If you write a phrase and think, 'Wow, that's really poetic, that's really pretty, I really nailed it,' you get rid of it [because]…

— David Sedaris

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

— Stephen King

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh…

— Walt Whitman

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

— May Sarton

“Writing! There's nothing like it! Well, you would know! You sit down in a corner. By yourself. With a sheet of paper and an…

— David Burke

“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties,…

— Anne Brontë

“I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish…

— Richelle E. Goodrich