“Creation is everything you do. Make something.”Ntozake Shange “You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.”James Baldwin “We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?”Marguerite Gardiner “Write about what makes you different.”Sandra Cisneros “Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”Miles Davis “Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously.”Edwidge Danticat “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”Nathaniel Hawthorne “A word after a word after a word is power.”Margaret Atwood “I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”Charlotte Brontë “Didacticism is the death of art.”Alice Dunbar Nelson “If certain critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!”Percy Bysshe Shelley “No, I do not weep at the world – I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”Zora Neale Huston “Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.”Charlie Parker “Nothing mattered...but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.”Willa Cather “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”Amy Tan “Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.”Langston Hughes “Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?”J.D. Salinger “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”Stephen King