“Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.” - Violet Haberdasher

“This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.” - John Green

“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.” - Raymond Chandler

“Inspiration comes of working every day.” - Charles Baudelaire

“There are very few innocent sentences in writing.” - David Foster Wallace

“If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.” - A.M. Homes

“You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?” - L.M. Montgomery

Win a trip to NYC, a tour of HarperTeen 📚, a column on Teen. How? Write a story for Being Lauren Oliver again. bit.ly/UkYaId

"It is a truth universally acknowledged..." Happy 200th Birthday to Pride & Prejudice.

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.” - Lemony Snicket

There's no such thing as an "aspiring writer," folks. Either write stuff or don't. #ThereIsNoTry

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” - Stephen King

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly--they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” - Dali

.@SarahReesBrenna on character voice: "Saying things out loud helps, especially to nail a voice." bit.ly/11f9jiG

"Nothing can be said that doesn't get more meaningful when said in all caps." -Emily Steele, Figment

“Every heart is made of stories.”- Jennifer Donnelly, "Revolution" (via bit.ly/13j20Us)

Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them. INKHEART, CORNELIA FUNKE <3 one of my fave lines / quotes.

Daily Writing Quotes "Life is a balanced equation,Don't try to disorder the balance"~Mohammed Sekouty #quote