Be prepared Quote by Stephen King

“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered”

— Afiena Kamminga

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and…

— Pearl Cleage

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to…

— Richard Denney

“Sometimes the less we know about what will happen in a work of fiction, the better off we are. Because the more we know…

— Dermot Bolger

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's…

— Barack Obama

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

— Laura Lippman

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do…

— J. Oswald Sanders

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

— Natalie Goldberg

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the morning, and…

— David Freeman Hawke

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti