The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned. - Anais Nin
The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die. - Luigi Pirandello
The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself. - Gail Carson Levine
When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery. - Jane Hirshfield
Without a pen in my hand I can't think. - John le Carre
Write and share your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English. - Glen Cook
Writers are made – forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities. - Chuck Wendig
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. - Henry David Thoreau
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolours. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. - Joan Didion
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. - Ernest Hemingway
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