"When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful." ~ Sandra Cisneros
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. ~ Dylan Thomas
The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important--a light you can get at--or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern. ~ Allen Ginsberg
Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out – helping OTHERS move inward – it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye
The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis. ~ Barry Lane
Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything ~ Jack Kerouac
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written. ~ Edward Albee
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. ~ Ishmael Reed
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. ~ Nina Bawden, In My Own Time
A good writer always works at the impossible. ~ John Steinbeck