“Novels begin not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming – in thinking, not writing.”

~ Joyce Carol Oates

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it is done. It’s that easy and that hard.”

~ Neil Gaiman

“Creativity takes courage.”

~ Henri Matisse

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov