"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.” –Neil Gaiman
“Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.” –Natalie Goldberg
“When I was thirteen, I used to get high on Dylan Thomas, Blake, Wilde, and Yeats.” –Jolie Holland
“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea forever.” –Will Self
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” –Natalie Goldberg
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” –Ernest Hemingway
“Writers don’t write from experience. Writers write from empathy.” –Nikki Giovanni
“At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.” –H.P. Lovecraft
“I wear a helmet when I write, because if you’re doing it right, writing is dangerous.” –Jarod Kintz
“You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” –G.K. Chesterton
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.” –Stephen King
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.” –Mary Oliver
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.” –Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.” –William S. Burroughs
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” –Markus Zusak
“For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.” –Philip K. Dick