"The other me Demands emergence constantly." - Ray Bradbury
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
"What a story is “about” is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring." - George Saunders
"Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness." - Ray Bradbury
"Here is the stuff of originality. For it is in the totality of experience reckoned with, filed, and forgotten, that each man is truly different from all others in the world." - Ray Bradbury
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." - Stephen King
"If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." - Stephen King
"Because novels come from long-marinated and unregarded anxiety, from silent anxiety…" - Martin Amis
"The ideas will follow me. When they’re off-guard, and ready to be born, I’ll turn around and grab them." - Ray Bradbury