Author quotes.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.  ~Anais Nin

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  ~E. L. Doctorow

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worse enemy to creativity is self-doubt.  ~Sylvia Plath

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.  ~Elmore Leonard

If there's a book that you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.  ~Toni Morrison

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.  ~Logan Pearsall

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.  ~Anton Chekhov

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.  ~Orson Scott Card

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter; it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.  ~Mark Twain

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.  ~Karl Kraus

Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

A writer and nothing else:  a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.  ~John K. Hutchens

Be obscure clearly.  ~E.B. White

Writing is a struggle against silence.  ~Carlos Fuentes

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.  ~Stephen King

Writing is both mask and unveiling.  ~E. B. White

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.  One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.  ~George Orwell

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.  ~Robert Benchley

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.  ~Goethe