From Albert Einstein

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"

From Bob Dylan

"A poet to me is someone that wouldn't call themselves a poet"

From Ray Bradbury

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed quickly, to trap them before they escape.

From Roald Dahl

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

From Ernest Hemingway

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they've done.

From Kurt Vonnegut

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career.

From Harper Lee

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

From Roberto Bolano

I can be a clown to my readers, if I damn well please, but never to the powerful. It sounds bit melodramtic. it sounds like the statement of an honest whore. But in short, that's how it is.

from W.E. Gladstone

“I absorb the vapor and return it as a flood.”

-W.E. Gladstone.

From Jimi Hendrix

“A musician, if he's like a messenger, is like a child who hasn't been handled too many times by man, hasn't had too many fingerprints across his brain.”

-Jimi Hendrix

From Eudora Welty

“Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost.”

-Eudora Welty

From Charlie Parker

“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.”

-Charlie Parker.

From Nadine Gordimer

“Writing is making sense of life. You work you whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”

-Nadine Gordimer

from Sinclair Lewis

“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”

-Sinclair Lewis

From Muriel Rukseyer

“Breathe-in experience, breathe out poetry.”

             -Muriel Rukeyser


 

from George Farquhar

“Poetry's a mere drug.”

-George Farquhar

From Agnes Repplier

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

-Agnes Repplier

From Arthur Rimbaud

“Women and men once believed in prophets. Now they believe in politicians.”


                       -Arthur Rimbaud.


                   

From Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

                          -Orson Welles

From Virginia Woolf

"Literature is strewn  with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."