Attendance Quote by Mary Russell Mitford

“The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has been there…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”

— Patricia Fuller

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

— William Joyce

“Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.”

— Chris Baty

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

“Page thirteen of the Baudelaire file was not a crowded sheet of paper - there was just one photography and a sentence to make…

— Lemony Snicket

“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.”

— M. Kirin

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

“Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a…

— Ben Lerner

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

“It doesn't matter how a novel was printed. What matters are the words in between the pages.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues.”

— Anne Lamott