"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way" - Ernest Hemingway

"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them" - Stephen King

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. Stephen King

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” 
― Stephen King

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.” 
― Stephen King

“The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful—at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.” 
― Stephen King

“Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt to feel artificial and labored. I lean more heavily on intuition, and have been able to do that because my books tend to be based on situation rather than story. Some of the ideas which have produced those books are more complex than others, but the majority start out with the stark simplicity of a department store window display or a waxwork tableau. I want to put a group of characters (perhaps a pair; perhaps even just one) in some sort of predicament and then watch them try to work themselves free. My job isn’t to help them work their way free, or manipulate them to safety—those are jobs which require the noisy jackhammer of plot—but to watch what happens and then write it down.” 
― Stephen King, 

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” 
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.” 
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” 
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” 
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” 
― Franz Kafka

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.” 
― Beatrix Potter

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” 
― Jack London

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” 
― Ernest Hemingway

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” 
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.” 
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.” 
― Willa Cather

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.” 
― Ernest Hemingway

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” 
― Ray Bradbury

“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.” 
― Stephen King

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible” 
― Vladimir Nabokov

“The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...” 
― Jean Baudrillard, 

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. Ray Bradbury
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Bradbury
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You fail only if you stop writing. Ray Bradbury
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Libraries raised me. Ray Bradbury
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. Jack Kerouac
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka
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