“The great thing about writing is that you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.”
—Stephen King
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“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
—Buddha
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“First sentences are doors to worlds.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Writing that springs from the surface of existence—when there is no other way and the deeper wells have dried up—is nothing, and collapses the moment a truer emotion makes that surface shake.
"That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.”
—Franz Kafka
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“Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. I read newspapers, textbooks on crime. I talk to private investigators, police officers, jail administrators, doctors, lawyers, career criminals. Ideas are everywhere.”
—Sue Grafton
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