14 Inspiring Quotes By Female Authors On Writing Published March 15, 2018 "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 "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