No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

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Realism can break a writer's heart.

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Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. ― Steve Maraboli

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The only Limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), “Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?” chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. – Steven Pressfield

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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

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You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa.

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A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how we reply to power and beat back our fear. ― Don DeLillo

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