I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.

~ Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor Author Why We Write Writing Writing Life

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

~ Michael J. Kannengieser

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Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

~ Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

~ T.s. Eliot

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It's more important to be read than paid.

~ S.l. Walker

S.l. Walker Author Reading Writing

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Author Writing

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

~ Rayne Hall

Rayne Hall Author Writing Writing Life

All writing is rewriting.

~ John Green

John Green Author Inspirational John Green Writing

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Someone described a writer's world as tormented, and I had to laugh.  A tormented writer?  I personally wouldn't have put those two words together.  Emotions have the power to torment a soul, yes, I agree to that.  But writers, through the formation of our characters, delve so often into the depths of a vast range of emotions that we earn the advantage.  For we've examined every little thrumming, fracture, spark, pang, and darkening of the heart to a point that we understand and appreciate the necessity and strength of emotions as well as the cause and effects manipulating them.  We understand.  We can imagine.  We sympathize.  Our knowledge is power over the torment of emotional ignorance.  I would suggest that those truly tormented are the readers of our works because those poor souls shall never know with such clarity and sentiment all the tiny little details that make our characters breath, move, and live before our very eyes.  Perhaps, if torment does lurk among writers, it comes simply through knowing more about an imagined friend than can ever be adequately expressed in words.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong

~ Vicki M. Taylor

Vicki M. Taylor Author Forever Love Writing

As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.

~ Benjamin Bayani

Benjamin Bayani Author Nonsense Writing

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?

~ Shandy L. Kurth

Shandy L. Kurth Author Banned Books Controversy Reading Writing

I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.

~ Shandy L. Kurth

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Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

~ Steve López

Steve López Author Books Mission Reading Truth Writing

Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel. As a story teller I am trying to captivate the audience and allow them to feel just a small portion of the emotion I am desperately trying to preserve.

~ Tommy Tran

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There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen.  And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths.  Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.

~ Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej Author Roller Derby Writing

Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact.

~ Saru Singhal

Saru Singhal Author Writing

I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.

~ Julian Darius

Julian Darius Author Authorship Books Interpretation Writing

Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to write regardless. I suppose it is similar to people who talk just to hear their own voice. I write simply to see my own thoughts in print.

~ Andrew James Pritchard

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

~ Honoré De Balzac

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When we’ve decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.

~ Celine Kiernan

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Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.

~ Laura Kreitzer

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I wrote this about you, about our love, our story. And I feel so damn lucky that others in this world, strangers in other parts, can steal a piece of what we have and feel so lucky too.

~ Crystal Woods

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I write because he needs to know.

~ Leanne Mechelle

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She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.

~ Brandon Villasenor

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Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

~ Chris Prentiss

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Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche.  I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business.  I am a storyteller.  Daydreaming is the best part of my job.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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The right to write is too sacred to be wrong with.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

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The miracle of wonder is sacred writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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For some, vampires are still firmly in the 'evil, scary' column. However, in recent decades, vampires also run the gamut from evil to morally ambiguous all the way to fangless and vegetarian. I think part of their appeal lies in their versatility. Vampires can be the villain, the hero, and everything in between, all depending on the writer's whim. You'll also never hear me say that anyone is doing vampires 'wrong' because unless a real vampire stands up and sets the record straight, it's anyone's game as a far as defining them in fiction.

~ Jeaniene Frost

Jeaniene Frost Vampires Writing

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

~ Anne Frank

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Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. All my life I have been suffering for words. Words have been the source of the pain and the way to heal. Struck as a child for talking, for speaking out of turn, for being out of my place. Struck as a grown woman for not knowing when to shut up, for not being willing to sacrifice words for desire. Struck by writing a book that disrupts. There are many ways to be hit. Pain is the price we pay to speak the truth.

~ Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks Childhood Memoir Poetry Writing

Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had to be shared. If she tried to hold anything back, they would search and find the hidden places. Her written words, discovered, read were just the source of more pain and punishment. This was why she loved poetry. They did not always understand it so they left it alone.

~ Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks Childhood Memoir Poetry Writing

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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