“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” 
― Stephen King 

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” 
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye 

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” 
― Toni Morrison 

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” 
― Saul Bellow 

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.” 
― Lloyd Alexander 

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 
― Sylvia Plath 

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” 
― Anaïs Nin 

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” 
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing 

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” 
― Winston Churchill 

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” 
― Stephen King 

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” 
― Isaac Asimov 

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ” 
― Joss Whedon 

“You can make anything by writing.” 
― C.S. Lewis 

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.” 
― Michael Cunningham 

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” 
― Anaïs Nin 

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” 
― Jack London