Quote by Lewis Carroll

“The sign said don’t do it, so naturally I did it. Signs are always saying stuff in a silent way.
 Writing is a way…

— Jarod Kintz

“Allen Ginsberg asked me to sign his book. I must've stood there for five minutes drawing a complete blank. Hi Allen, from one howl…

— Eileen Myles

“Of course it happened. If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's…

— Kilgore Trout

“You told all this to the people in the town,” he said. “They said they can’t do anything because of no proof.”

— China Miéville

“If I don't write it, they can't buy it.”

— Connie Cox

“Hi. I can't believe there's an author with my name.”

— Irene Lim

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette

“I will not put a name to what has no name,”

— Shirley Jackson

“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.”

— Henning Mankell

“For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I…

— Markus Zusak

“I suggested to her that she start writing. "I can't write at all," she said. "Neither can many bestsellers," I replied. "But that pesky…

— Jarod Kintz

“If I don't write it, who will? No one; at least not the way I would because the idea is uniquely mine.”

— Anonymous