“ You know too little and it doesn't exist. You know too much and it doesn't exist. Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens the… Karl Ove Knausgård
“ Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person’s level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consci… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose. Samuel Colbran
“ 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
“ Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck. Glen Hirshberg
“ How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought … Nanette L. Avery
“ When writing a comprehensive self-investigatory scroll, the writer attempts to weave a network of strands capable of enmeshing all sizes of ideas including those with no obvious interconnection. The w… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Nothing that happens is meant to happen or not meant to happen. The ‘meant’ is the story we tell ourselves that allows us to make sense of what is fundamentally senseless. Does this make our lives les… Billy Marshall Stoneking
“ Every human being carries with them the stories of their ancestors, the story of their generation, and the rudiments of pliable clay to build future storylines that will shape their community of kindr… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Personal discontent and lost illusion is the catalysis and the principal theme for every book ever written. The sign of maturity is when a person finally realizes that they would rather live truthfull… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead. David Eddings
“ Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree. Rob Bignell
“ Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time. Roman Payne
“ Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take with us into the Ring of Time the people whom we crossed paths… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Talking to oneself is a recognized means to learn, in fact, self-speak may be the seed concept behind human consciousness. Private conversation that we hold with ourselves might represent the preemine… 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
