God wove a web of loveliness
Of clouds and stars and birds
But made not anything at all
So beautiful as words
~Anna Hempstead Branch

We are all pencils in the hand of God
~Mother Teresa

God’s teeming creation that frustrates and delights me…far exceeds anything I could make up
~Janie B. Cheaney

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice
~Cyril Connoly

Every time an artist creates…they act in the image of the Creator
~James Romaine

My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the King; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer
~Psalms 54:1

"Gentlemen, regarding the recent rejection slip you sent me. I think there might have been misunderstanding. What I really wanted was for you to publish my story, and send me fifty thousand dollars. Don't you realize that?"
~Snoopy

…people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?
~Anne of Green Gables

Writers aren’t the neatest people in the world—in my experience. We tend to live in our heads and don’t notice the stack of mail on the counter until it falls on the floor
~Judy Bodmer

Do not annoy the writer. She may put you in a book and kill you
~Anonymous

Like every book I’ve never written, it is by far the best book I ever wrote
~G.K. Chesterton

Artists should nourish the spirit, not poison it
~John R. Erickson

They can’t yank a writer like they can a pitcher. An author has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
~Ernest Hemingway

Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You’ll always miss 100\% of the shots you never take
~Anonymous

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no words left when you want to talk about something really infinite
~C.S. Lewis

My Mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my Mother
~Sharon Dubiago

A writer wastes nothing
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they go past
~Douglas Adams

The name comes first and the story follows
~J.R.R. Tolkien

And will you succeed?
Yes, you will indeed!
(98 and 3/4¾ percent guaranteed!)
~Dr. Seuss, “Oh the Places You’ll Go!”

Whatever you are, be a good one
~Abraham Lincoln

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen
~Martin Luther

Just as morally bad books are usually aesthetically bad as well, good books—even those by non-Christians—are usually in accord with God’s created order both morally and aesthetically
~Edward Veith

I write for the same reason I breathe—because if I didn’t, I would die
~Isaac Asimov

All art is an imitation of nature
~Seneca

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you’re doing the impossible
~Francis of Assisi

All this writing business. Pencils and whatnot. Overrated if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing to it.
~Eeyore