Quotes supplied by LeeC and LyndaG. Contributions welcome.
| "I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." -- Maya Angelou |
| "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free" -- Michaelangelo | |
| "If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word" --Dave Barry | |
| "If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space." -- Joyce Carol Oates | |
| "One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others" -- Alfred Kazin | |
| "Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another." -- Bono | |
| "Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use." -- John O'Hara | |
| "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." -- Ella Fitzgerald | |
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him." -- Graham Greene |
| "Writing a book is like driving a car at night. You only see as far as your headlights go, but you can make the whole trip that way." -- E.L. Doctorow | |
| "Emotion is an essential ingredient of suspense." -- Alfred Hitchcock | |
| "To write is human, to edit is divine." -- Stephen King | |
| "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." -- Mark Twain | |
| "Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace." -- Marianna Williamson | |
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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx |
| "The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." -- Vladimir Nabokov | |
| "Nora Roberts says 'You can fix anything but a blank page.' And that's absolutely true. If you spend a day writing crap, you can fix it. If you spend a day not writing, you've got nothing." -- Eve Ackerman | |
| "When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different." -- Bill Austin | |
| "Let yourself be brilliant."-- Brendan Fraser |