...I wrote myself into the world.

"I made myself with words. I wrote myself into the world." -Benjamin Hale; The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

Writer's block...

"Writer's block: When your imaginary friends won't talk to you." -Unknown

...Write like a motherfucker.

"So write ... Not like a girl. Not like a boy. Write like a motherfucker." -Sugar; Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column

...Carry it with me...

"I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: _Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;_ or maybe just: _Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters._ And then smile very serenely until they say _oh._" -Sugar; Dear Sugar, the Rumpus Advice Column

...the author is a liar...

"First of all, the author is a liar." -James Clemens; Wit'ch Fire

What has writing taught you?...

"'What has writing taught you?' 'How to be fierce. How to forgive. How to see the world spinning from another perspective. How to build a sacred hut. How to find and hold ten thousand versions of the truth. How to fail. How to work incredibly hard on the smallest, most invisible thing. / How to be quiet and scared and brave.'" -Sugar; 50-in-50

First, I would have her be...

"First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. She will take out her glasses, and there in the bookstore, she will thumb over my poems, then put the book back up on its shelf. She will say to herself, 'For that kind of money, I can get my raincoat cleaned.' And she will." -Ted Kooser

We put a piece...

"We put a piece of our soul in every character we write about." -Luinthoron

Words mean more...

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes a human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." -Maya Angela; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

When you steal from one author...

"When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research." -Wilson Mizner