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“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.

[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.”
― A.D. Posey

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
― Claire Fuller, Swimming Lessons

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”
― Núria Añó

“I sincerely believe that only those who are financially free can produce great works of art. Poor artists are too bothered about money and fame, which hampers their creativity. An artist shouldn’t have any financial pressure. One can’t create something poetic if commercial success is all one is concerned about.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers�� attention.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“One of the disadvantages of literary awards is the fact that authors are writing to please a book award committee, rather than to spread the message of love, tolerance, peace, and serve humanity.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“We are the thoughts we choose to keep.”
― A.D. Posey

“I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
But now the words dance with me.
I sing with them
and we create poetry.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.”
― Andrew Barger, Mailboxes - Mansions - Memphistopheles: A Collection of Dark Tales

“A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.”
― Arthur Miller

“Always choose love over fear.”
― A.D. Posey

“‏Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.”
― Grace Paley

“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.”
― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

“Talent is as common as table salt. The difference between a talented person and a successful one is a lot of hard work.”
― Stephen King

“Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee With Poe

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.”
― Donna Goddard

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps again.”
― Traci Lea LaRussa

“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.”
― A.D. Posey

“Sometimes your diary is the perfect listener.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

“I have so much to share with the world, please be patient and you will get everything you are currently waiting for.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I am surely not the only writer who has the distinct sense that every sentence I write is surrounded by the ghosts of the sentences I could have written at that point, but didn't.”
― Philip Pullman

“Att skriva för hand är som att måla en tavla med ord”
― Maria Frid Selin

“Hit the reader hard and early; begin your work with a violence of metaphor.”
― J Brian Long

“Always kneel on one knee along the path so the reader may help you bear the cross.”
― J Brian Long

“An artist brings words to life through images, while an author creates living images using words.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Weak people should not be writers. Their books will have no spine.”
― Amber Garibay, How to Make Ten-Million Dollars with a Rubber Chicken

“Being a writer means spilling out thoughts and feelings and suddenly realizing you had no intention of revealing yourself so completely, and then hitting the send button. That’s it, it’s that one little click with your right pinky that differentiates a writer from the rest. It’s the one courageous act of a coward, the one act of commitment from one who hates to commit to anything. It’s the introvert lowering his guard for an instant, inviting the world to see more deeply into him than the extrovert ever does. Or at least it feels like it. And if you do your job right, you get a bunch of admiration and a good dose of hate, and ultimately people will see you as an all right guy who has some odd ideas but isn’t completely off his rocker.”
― James Rozoff

“For the first time in years, he wasn’t trapped in writing his agony.
Now, he could finally write his hopes.”
― Joy Michelle Austin, Half Agony, Half Hope