"I’m an over-writer and a binge writer; I write pages and pages of crap and then delete 90 percent of it."
– Lisa Ko
14 Inspiring Quotes By Female Authors On Writing
"Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job."
– Jeanette Winterson
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning."
– Maya Angelou
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
– Emily Dickinson
"Write what should not be forgotten."
– Isabel Allende
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it."
– Toni Morrison
"Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted."
– Vivienne Westwood
"Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."
– Annie Proulx
"One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read."
– Suzanne Collins
"Reading for writers is like training for athletes."
– Linda Sue Park
"I write to discover what I know."
– Flannery O’Conner
"I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism."
– Abigail Reynolds
"The best books come from someplace deep inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to."
– Judy Blume
"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters."
– Virginia Woolf
