Charles de Montesquieu
“Create your own community, and forget about pedigrees and prizes. If the mainstream shifts to accommodate you — as it has done to accommodate so many non-mainstream communities of writers — then you at least arrived there on your own terms.”
Brian Henry
“When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn’t planned.”
Melanie Benjamin
“A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.”
C. S. Forester
“The less conscious one is of being ‘a writer,’ the better the writing.”
Pico Iyer
“Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.”
Rita Mae Brown
“Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you’ll go through a phase where you will imitate your favourite writers and that’s fine because that’s a learning experience too.”
JK Rowling
“All truth is manipulated, because the universe is chaotic. What we divine from it is the superimposition of some kind of order, whether it’s religion, superstition, story and art, literature, science — all of them are an attempt to keep the wolf from the door. And that wolf is the panic of chaos.”
Ken Burns