"Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity."
                  ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
"The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the rules. Or bend them. The story doesn't have to end. You can stay in this world, this world you love, as long as you want, as long as you keep thinking of new stories."
                  ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
"Desire is the fuel of creators, and when we have that, motivation will come in its wake."
                  ― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters
 "There's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing."
                  ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
"Do you ever have an idea for a story, or a character, or even a line of dialogue or something, and suddenly it seems like the whole world is brighter? Like everything opens up, and everything makes sense?"
                   ― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters
"I was a dreamer born into the Court of Nightmares," Mor said. "So I got out."
               ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury