Phrases Quote by Michelle C. Hillstrom

“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”

— Núria Añó

“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be given to…

— Frances Mayes

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is…

— John Rember

“People very often say to me, 'How did you do it, how did you raise a baby and write a book?' And the answer…

— J.K. Rowling

“Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have…

— Lewis Carroll

“If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.”

— Janice Hardy

“Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.”

— Sylvan Barnet