“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.” – Henning Mankell

“I belong to this notebook and this pencil.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Getting warmed up and getting into the obsession and focus of writing is its own reward.” – Seamus Heaney

“Anything that I write comes from the soul.” – Martin Gore

“I never met a word I didn’t love.” – Gail Carson Levine