I had to come to terms with the fact that writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it. I would not commit adultery, but I wanted to write a whole book about an affair. I know it sounds simpleminded, but I actually had to have a conversation with myself about this in the beginning, convincing myself that it was alright to depict this affair. - Jonellen Heckler

Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait two years to know whether or not it was funny - Alain de Botton

Describing your writing as trash while you're still drafting is like looking at a bag of flour and an egg and saying "My cake tastes like crap." - Paul Grealish

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;Thou art thyself, though not a Montague…. O, be some other name!What's in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare

You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! - The Doctor

I’ve always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming. - Jay Asher

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker.... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art. - Paul Schrader

Don't use a big word when a singularly unloquacious and diminutive linguistic expression will satisfactorily accomplish the contemporary necessity. - Steve Green

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. - Lynne Truss

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. - Maya Angelou

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” - Stephen King

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard. - Marissa Me

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. - H.P. Lovecraft

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. - Aristotle

The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework. - Brandon Sanderson

We all wish we had superpowers. We all wish we could do more than we can do. - Stan Lee