“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Maya Angelou

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
– Saul Bellow

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
– Ana S Nin

“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

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship,stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
– Philip Pullman

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
– Stephen King, On Writing

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
– Isaac Asimov

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It’s that easy, and that hard.”
– Neil Gaiman

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
– William Wordsworth

“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”
– Agatha Christie

“We write to remember our nows later.”
– Terri Guillemets