“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
— Stephen King

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. … [Write] knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.” — Edwidge Danticat

“You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.” — Doris Lessing

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for me it is conscious living.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn’t matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.” – Leonard Bernstein

“Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down — revising and embellishing as I go. I’m always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.” — Erica Jong

“What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfold world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. — Anne Lamott

“When I am writing, I am doing the thing I was meant to do.” – Anne Sexton

“Writing eases my suffering… writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.” — Gao Xingian

“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“Don’t get it right, just get it written.” — James Thurber

“If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.” — Neil Gaiman

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”
— Kurt Vonnegut

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” — Emily Dickinson

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” — William H. Gass

“Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.”
— Natalie Goldberg

“A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.” — Simone de Beauvoir