“We must be the change we wish to see in the world” — Gandhi
“Language is a virus from outer space” — William S. Burroughs
“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“The writer is the engineer of the human soul.” — Joseph Stalin
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” — Kurt Vonnegut
“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.” — John Steinbeck
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.” — William Faulkner
“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.” — Flannery O'Connor
“Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.” — George Lucas
“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.” — Salman Rushdie
“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.” — Roald Dahl
“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.” — Quentin Tarantino
“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.” — Thomas Wolfe
“The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.” — Robertson Davies
“As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.” — Neil Gaiman
“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” — Lisa See
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” ― Terry Pratchett
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” ― Jodi Picoult
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” — Louis L’Amour
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” — Virginia Woolf
“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
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ― Anton Chekhov
“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.” — Stephen King
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” — Orson Scott
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
“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
“If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.” — Wally Lamb
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” — Anne Frank
“I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.” — Chinua Achebe
