“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

Madeleine L’Engle the author of A Wrinkle in Time

 

“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.”

Anne Lamott author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

 

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”

Lisa See author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

 

“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”

Ernest Hemingway author of For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea

 

 “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

Muriel Rukeyser author of The Book of the Dead

 

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

Ray Bradbury author of Zen in the Art of Writing

 

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

Lee Martinez author of Monster and A Nameless Witch

 

“If you’re silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.”

Alice Walker author of The Color Purple

 

“I wasn’t born to cook or clean, but to read and write, if you don’t like me the way I am, then go fly a kite.”

Besa Kosova author of Rain Drops

 

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

Stephen King author of Misery and Carrie

 

“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”

Jean Little author of Little by Little and Stars Come Out Within

 

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