"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with." - Marty Feldman

"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries." - Stephen King

"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers." - Logan Pearsall Smith

"I could have eaten alpha bits and crapped out a better essay." - Community

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here – that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?” – Dead Poets Society

"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even desperation, the sense that you can never completely put on the page what is in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly, let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page." -Stephen King

"Careful, you may end up dead in my next novel."

"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there's not hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

-Junot Diaz

"I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like "Who me?" Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women... maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a women and it was the truth of every woman." -Betty Friedan

"Easy reading is damned hard writing." -Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Writing is the only socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." -E. L. Doctorow

"Substitute "damn" every time you are tempted to write "very"; you're editor will delete it and the writing will be as it should be." -Mark Twain