“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking…a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.” – Don DeLillo

“…a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing.” – Shirley Jackson

“…(the) Creative writer…observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He can perceive from life-experience what common man cannot see at all.” – Aristotle

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.” – Vita Sackville-West

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, so that a hundred years later when a stranger looks at it, it moves again…” – William Faulkner