"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to b..."
- Simone de Beauvoir
"I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life."
- Dodie Smith
"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my ..."
- Alysha Speer
"That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox."
- Nicole Krauss
"Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage."
- Criss Jami
"Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth."
- Paula Danziger
"There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry."
- D. Antoinette Foy
"Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind."
- Mark Siegel
"She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes."
- Giovannie de Sadeleer
"Jesus Christ is the source—the only source—of meaning in life. He provides the only satisfactory explanation for why we’re here and where we’re going. Because of this good news, the final heartbeat fo..."
- James C. Dobson