We write to taste life twice—in the moment and in retrospect.
—Anaïs Nin
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.
—John Waters
You have to be on fire with the idea of words.
—David Sedaris
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
—Truman Capote
The function of writing is to explode one’s subject—transform it into something else. Writing is a series of transformations.
—Susan Sontag
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
I’ve found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.
—Don Roff
I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.
