Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” Tom Stoppard
When the Grim Reaper comes to get me, he'll have to give me a few extra hours to revise my last words. Flannery O'Connor
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. Vladimir Nabokov
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself. Lisa Gardner
I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing. Cynthia Rylant
"In fiction, you can sometimes tell the truth better." John Nardizzi, author (and investigator for the Innocence Project)
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. E.M. Forster
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. Joan Didion
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader--not the fact that it's raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E.L. Doctorow
