The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.
—James Baldwin
Go a little out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.
—David Bowie
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.
—William Shakespeare
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
—Anne Frank
Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.
—Jack London
If an adverb became a character in one of my books, I'd have it shot. Immediately.
—Elmore Leonard
Writing is a delicious agony.
—Gwendolyn Brooks
