I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
Louisa May Alcott
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
Lynn Abbey
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain
My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
Markus Zusak
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
Martin Luther
I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
Mary Oliver
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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