James Joyce
“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.”
Barry Lopez
“When you’re writing a book, you don’t really think about it critically. You don’t want to know too well what you’re doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it. The book is constructed as a conversation, with someone doing most of the talking and someone doing most of the listening.”
E. L. Doctorow
“I was a child who read everything I could get my hands on. Eventually, I asked of a story not only what was to happen next, but how is this done? How am I made to live from words on a page? And so I became a writer.”
E. L. Doctorow
“Write everyday and read everything you can get your hands on. Write every day with a pen that’s shaped like a candy cane.”
David Sedaris
“I became involved with writing like it is a love affair.”
Kao Kalia Yang
“It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.”
Gustave Flaubert
“If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.”
Naguib Mahfouz