“We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.”
- Stephen Jay Gould
“Good writing is like a windowpane.”
- George Orwell
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”
- Joseph Pulitzer
“Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.”
- Amy Tan
“Don’t forget – no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.”
- Charles de Lint
“Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.”
- Rosamunde Pilcher
“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
- Joyce Carol Oates
“I always keep at it, because I have to. Writing is completely part of who I am. Even if I never published another book, I would keep at it - because it feeds my life and makes it richer.”
- Paula McLain
“There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
- J.K. Rowling
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
- Anne Lamott
“It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me.”
- Mamah Borthwick
