“It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something
beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
- Leonardo da Vinci

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to
paper.” - E. B. White

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
- William Wordsworth

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”
- Gloria Steinem

“If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.” – Natalie Goldberg

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
– Stephen King

“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the
heart.” – Maya Angelou

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost