Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.
Robert M. Drake
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The story is always better than your ability to write it.
Robin McKinley
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
Sharon Olds
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.
Stephen King
All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.
It is the tale, not he who tells it.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. Chesterton
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..
Gabriel García Márquez
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Tennessee Williams
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