- "The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake." - Haruki Murakami
- "A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself." - Ray Bradbury
- How to deal with writer's block: "I just lower my standards and carry on." - William Stafford
- "...when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists." - Paul Auster
- "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art -- the art of words." - Ursula LeGuin
- " A writer is a world trapped in a person." - Victor Hugo
- "[Writing] is the perfect occupation for a hermit. And that's what I tend to be." - Octavia Butler
- "Adverbs aren’t evil; said isn’t dead / Please stop hitting the wall with your head / Active is grand but not always the best / Sometimes it’s passive that passes the test / Some write with style, others write plain / Let’s all agree that writing’s a pain / The ‘rules’ can be broken, twisted, or bent / All that matters is that you are content / Make your own story and write your own way / This has been a writer’s PSA." - fatally_procrastinating on Tumblr
- “You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.” - Gore Vidal
- “The moment when I am no longer more than a writer, I will cease to write.” - Albert Camus
- "How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?" - E.M. Forster
- “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” - Jules Renard
- "Think of this -- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.” - A.S. Byatt
- "If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you’re still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet." - Billy Collins
- "Criticism is a different conduct of the brain. That kind of analytical action of the mind is not the way you work when you write. You bring things together, you synthesize, you connect things that have had no previous connection when you write. So, all in all, as valuable as my training was, it took me through language in the wrong direction. It cost me a few years of writing time to recover my ignorance, the way I felt about writing as a child." - E.L. Doctorow
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