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

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes. ” ― William Zinsser

“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat... ’ And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. I’ll come.” Maya Angelou

“Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.” ― Lemony Snicket

“After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.” ― Natalie Goldberg

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.” ― Eudora Welty

“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.” ― Octavia E. Butler

“Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.” ― Theodore Dreiser

“No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.” ― Tennessee Williams

“The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. ” ― James Baldwin

“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.” ― Joyce Carol Oates

“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.” ― Amit Kalantri

“I can't blame technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse..." Colson Whitehead

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.” ― Victor Hugo

“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“They ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary world in which I would like to live.” ― William S. Burroughs

“An enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.” ― Connie Brockway

“If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird