“If you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.” – Meg Cabot

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.” – Howard Nemerov

“I write to be the characters that I am not.” – Joss Whedon

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories…” – Anne Lamott

“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.” – Emily Carr