“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person.”
– Carl Sagan
“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.”
– W. Somerset Maughan
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
– Thomas Jefferson
"A word after a word after a word is power."
– Margaret Atwood
“I write to discover what I know.”
– Flannery O’Connor
“If there’s a book that you want to read, and it hasn’t been written yet, you must write it.”
– Toni Morrison
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac
