“Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.”

“There is always, always, always something to write about.”

“Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.”

“Every book I've read appears in my writing.”

“...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.”

“...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptio...”

“Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom.”

“The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.”

“Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts; therefore, he did not risk writing them down. "I'd rather take it to my grave," he said...”

“She had her image and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood on to paperand this is the release that all write...”

“Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of b...”

“Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.”

“For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.”