Stephen King

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

Anaïs Nin

 “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

Mark Twain

 “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

Anita Diamant

 “Of all life’s pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”

Anita Diamant

 “I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.”

Anita Diamant

"The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place."

Anita Diamant

 "If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter."

Patrick Ness

 “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”

Anne Frank

 “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

William Shakespeare

 There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Anton Chekov

 “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

Stephen King

 “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

Douglas Adams

 “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Joanne Harris

 “Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are. ”

Joanne Harris

 “She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.”