Write hard and clear about what hurts.
-Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All Ты do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
-Ernest Hemingway

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five или six of them. Most people don’t see any.
-Orson Scott Card

For me, Письмо is exploration; and most of the time, I’m surprised where the journey takes me.
-Jack Dann

The hardest thing about Письмо is writing.
-Nora Ephron

If a writer falls in Любовь with you, Ты can never die.
-Mik Everett

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what Ты have to say. It’s the one and only thing Ты have to offer.
-Barbara Kingsolver

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
-Gustave Flaubert

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no Поэзия in money either.
-Robert Graves

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
-Maya Angelou

Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, или for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.”
-Annie Dillard

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
-Ernest Hemingway

Письмо isn’t the same as speaking, I struggle with conversation.
-Alex Turner

Writers are forgetful
because
they’re busy
remembering
the important things.
-Unknown author, found on Tumblr

Книги are a uniquely portable magic.
-Stephen King

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
-Mark Twain

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
-Ernest Hemingway

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at 15 to write several novels.
-May Sarton

There is a difference between ‘true’ and 'real.’ Not all stories are true, but all of them are real. A writer can see, and feel, and live a story in her head, and she can then say или write words that make someone else do those same things. That’s real.
-Josette Vipond

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
-Andre Gide

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
-Elmore Leonard

Why am I compelled to write? Because the Письмо saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. Because I must keep the spirit of my revolt and myself alive. Because the world I create in the Письмо compensates for what the real world does not give me. By Письмо I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and hunger. I write to record what others erase when I speak, to rewrite the stories others have miswritten about me, about you. To become еще intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself; to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet или a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit. To Показать that I can and that I will write, never mind their admonitions to the contrary. And I will write about the unmentionables, never mind the outraged gasp of the censor and the audience. Finally I write because I'm scared of Письмо but I'm еще scared of not writing. Why should I try to justify why I write? Do I need to justify being Chicana, being woman? Ты might as well ask me to try to justify why I’m alive. The act of Письмо is the act of making soul, alchemy.
-Gloria Anzaldúa

Письмо is its own reward.
-Henry Miller