“ If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself. Neil Gaiman
“ My sincere desire is to write in a style that is simple enough for a child to understand, yet powerful enough to change lives. Rev. Lorna Lorraine Wilson
“ At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and shouted one word to her child.That word, reader, was adieu...Adieu is the French word for farewell. Kate DiCamillo
“ Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside. Roderick Vincent
“ Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own lif… Stephen King
“ I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion. Elizabeth Reyes
“ I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed. Ashley Sanders
“ Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words. Valerie Sherwood
“ Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts. Marion Dane Bauer
“ ...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ... John Geddes
“ The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.I started to write that 'Diary' chapter at the very beginning of the process and followed it through to the end... speaking t… Eskay Teel
“ I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters. Carla H. Krueger
“ I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man,Or the man who’s half a boy. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me quiet and they kept me entertained, and they got me out from under the feet of my pare… Donald Richie
“ I’m an observer. I am fascinated by people and how their minds work (and, of course, my own). Why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do – and that interest drives my writing. I was a physi… Carla H. Krueger
“ Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable idea as the writer occasionally balances a routine piece with an… Karl Wiggins
“ A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of the words. The words themselves have to be open to new ideas and suggestions, an… Karl Wiggins
