A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen, which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”

--Gaston Bachelard

“…no writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

--Brenda Ueland

 “A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself.  It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; not represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. The symbol of an ancient man’s thought becomes a modern man’s speech.”

--Henry David Thoreau

“…in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt…the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.”

--Elizabeth Bowen