Morrison

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

Toni Morrison

Hemmingway

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature”

Ernest Hemmingway

Angelou

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

Maya Angelou

Steinem

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”

Gloria Steinem

Nin

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say”

Anais Nin

Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you”

Ray Bradbury

Capote

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.”

Truman Capote

King

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

Stephen King

Twain

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should"

Mark Twain

Hemmingway

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”

Ernest Hemmingway

L'Engle

“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

Bradbury

“You fail only if you stop writing”

Ray Bradbury

King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

Stephen King

Rowling

“Be ruthless about protecting writing days. Do not cave in to endless requests to have ‘essential’ and ‘long overdue’ meetings on those days”

JK Rowling

Hemmingway

"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing."

Ernest Hemmingway