“ Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“ Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us. Joy Williams
“ Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight....what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be a writer. [I said], Tell your daughter three things. Tell h… Barry Lopez
“ Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history. M. Kirin
“ Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see. Jason E. Hodges
“ You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. Don Roff
“ When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville) Marti Melville
“ Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, wh… Brian A. McBride
“ For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day. Jason E. Hodges
“ I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. Dean Wesley Smith
“ And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by. Avijeet Das
“ The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond J.L. Bond
“ There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart. Jason E. Hodges
