“ Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time. Roman Payne
“ Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse. Roman Payne
“ Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escap… Sergio Troncoso
“ Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and reject… Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them. Aberjhani
“ It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write! Yael Shahar
“ To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You don’t simply suffer your own sadness, experience your own longing… M.J. Rose
“ Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of restoration, an undertaking where he or she explores that private psychic space of th… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ The act of writing is a contemplative vision quest, a somber expedition of discovery that requires the writer to subordinate their ego in order to travel in soulful solitude towards a desirable person… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to t… Bangambiki Habyarimana
