One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.Henry David Thoreau
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.Henry David Thoreau
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.Henry David Thoreau
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.C. S. Lewis
'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'C. S. Lewis
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.J. K. Rowling
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.C. S. Lewis
