“ I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours. Zaeema J. Hussain
“ It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. Alain de Botton
“ Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn… Julia Cameron
“ Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot. Fennel Hudson
“ The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible. Fennel Hudson
“ The writer who position is Christian, and probably also the writer whose position is not, will begin to wonder at this point if there could not be some ugly correlation between our unparalleled prospe… Flannery O'Connor
“ I'll call any length of fiction a story, whether it be a novel or a shorter piece, and I'll call anything a story in which specific characters and events influence each other to form a meaningful narr… Flannery O'Connor
“ Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have great characters it is impossible to create a good plot, nonetheless a solid one. Once you have bui… Ana Claudia Antunes
“ The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we… Johnny Rich
“ Each of us is the enactor of our personal saga; we create the phantom of the self. We are the principal character in our personal story, as well as witnesses and reactors to the storylines of other pe… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of th… Barbara W. Tuchman
“ Reading books makes us more attentive to our personage and the aesthetic world that we live in. Writers that we idolize use language, logic, and nuance to paint physical and emotional scenes with refi… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ An invisible, yet active current of mental energy, underscores any book as well as any other form of artistic creation. A creative burst of psychological energy ignites any creative project. The emoti… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Humankind cannot exist without the makeshift paradigm of innovative art, which genuine amoeba expresses elusive and unsayable thoughts. Humankind’s gallery of artistic impressions ranges from the star… Kilroy J. Oldster
