“I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.”
“Writing is about exploring the feelings”
“So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I ve learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled file and forget, and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?”
“For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.”
“Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit. Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications”
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.”
“To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.”
“She asked me could I read and write. I told her, Of course, and I can talk too.”
“I write for the same reason I read: because it s all there is for me.”
“When a day goes by and I haven t written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.”
“Every letter that she types; every keystroke that she strikes- To spell your name again and again, is all she ever wants to write.”
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.”
“Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes your way, and the media will embrace you.”
“The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.”
“I don t write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.”
“And why don t you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it.”