“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”-Anaïs Nin

“Write hard and clear about what hurts”.-Ernest Hemingway

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”-Leonard Cohen

“He asked, “What makes a man a writer?” “Well,” I said, “it’s simple. You either get it down on paper, of jump off a bridge.”-Charles Bukowski

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”-William Faulkner

“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”-Raymond Carver