“ There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spil… Sergio Troncoso
“ Our personal story has many chapters that reconnoiter universal themes. We each struggle to understand ourselves and aspire to make ourselves known to the world. We struggle to win the love of other p… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symboli… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition. Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it means to be human, express the indefinable feelings that unite humanki… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun. Neil Leckman
“ But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy? T.C. Boyle
“ The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. John Steinbeck
“ To sit down so often with nothing to say,-to say something so often, almost without consciousness of saying and without any remembrance or having said,-is a power of which I will not violate my modest… Michael Kelahan
“ Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech. Common
“ To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL. Deborah Levy
“ There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer. Jenn E.
“ My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was a small girl. Pianos, of course, came complete with the quintessential piano teacher who whacke… C. JoyBell C.
“ Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more. Catherynne M. Valente
“ Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. Christy Hall
“ Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head. Christy Hall
