Quotes

"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time."
Kurt Vonnegut

"Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse."
Marianne Williamson

"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer."
Barbara Kingsolver

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
McAlexander

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they may lead."
Lousia May Alcott

"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
Robert Cormier

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Bible Verses

"This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you."
Jeremiah 30:2

"But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit."
Jeremiah 17:7-8

"For the Lord grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding."
Proverbs 2:6