“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander
“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James A. Michener
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anaïs Nin
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley
“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King
“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman
