"It is brave of you to not feel as if you need to tell everything, and to realize that if you zoom in on a smaller topic, you'll actually see more treasures.  For the rest of your life, whenever you write narratives or stories, always remember that writers are like photographers. We zoom in on the specific story we really want to tell."

"Writers see more, hear more, think more because we are writing." Donald Murray

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader." Robert Frost

"Poems hide. In the bottom of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceiling the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them." Naomi Nye

"You should live differently because you write."

"Be like a magnet, pulling story ideas to you."

"Writing a poem is like giving blood. It goes straight from the heart of the writer to the heart of the reader." Ralph Fletcher

"My task is to make you hear, to make you feel-and above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is everything." Joseph Conrad

"I know nothing about the technical stuff of writing, like where to put the comma.  What i know about writing has to do with where you put your heart." Nasdijj

"Today is fair. Tomorrow may be overcast with clouds. My words are like the stars that never change." Chief Seattle

"Poems are fire for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." Mary Oliver

"I seek words, I chase after them. When I write I'm trying to put the most beautiful words in the world down on paper." Cynthia Rylant

"I think of writing as a way of seeing. It's a way of bringing out the specialness of ordinary things." Laurence Yep

"Keep listening. Keep your radar out. Take everything, because it is a matter for your work. No detail is too small." Mary Tallmountain

"I don't create characters so much as I make room inside my mind and heart for them to come and get me. I am drawn to characters who make me feel deeply-make me mad, confuse me, make me wonder, break my heart, stagger me with what they are up against." Carolyn Coman

"I write when I'm inspired-and I see to it that I'm inspired every morning at 9am." Amoz Oz

"The secret wish of poetry is to stop time." Charles Simic

"A writer should know how much change a character has in his pockets." James Joyce

"In baseball you get three strikes and you're out. In writing you get as many whacks at the ball as you want until you finally get a hit."
Tomie dePaola