“I write for the same reason I breathe
— because if I didn’t, I would die.”
-Isaac Asimov

“Writing is a discipline,
much like playing a musical instrument;
it requires constant practice and honing of skills.”
- Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code

“Write authentically,
what you want and need to write,
and you will write creatively.”
- Marshall J. Cook

“Writers, by their nature,
spend their time thinking about,
wondering about, delving into,
trying to understand -
the very things
that the rest of the world
doesn’t like to think about.”
- Harry Crews

“To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care,” says Anne Lamott. She advocates the belief that writers should be part of ‘the solution.’ Perhaps, we may not be able to find a cure for cancer or initiate world peace, but we can be part of humanity’s journey to a better world.
BIRD BY BIRD: SOME INSTRUCTIONS ON WRITING AND LIFE by Anne Lamott.

“Good writing has revelations.
Readers want truths about their own lives.”
- Nancy Kelton,
author of Writing From Personal Experience

“For many Christian writers, telling a good story doesn’t seem to be enough. They want to evangelize, to teach and to fill their fiction with high moral purport, doctrine and direction. This all sounds quite noble, of course, except the purpose of fiction is not propaganda. The proper place for preaching is the pulpit, the evangelistic crusade or even the pages of the nonfiction book. Fiction is different. Fiction is story.”
– excerpt from THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING AND SELLING THE CHRISTIAN NOVEL by Penelope J. Stokes, p. 55

“It is an illusion that writers live more significant lives than non-writers;
the truth is,
writers are just more in the habit of finding the significance
that is in their lives.”
- Vicki Vinton

“Good writing is about letting go. It’s about losing your self-consciousness. It leads you to your truest self. And to enormous possibility. If you aren’t going to tell the Truth about your life, do something - anything - other than write.”
- Nancy Kelton, author of Writing From Personal Experience

“In Life, we get to act polite,
In fiction, we get to tell the truth.”
- Joel Saltzman