ANASTASIA VALENTINE

“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.”

“Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved”

"Be yourself. Above all let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish."
- John Jakes

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean"
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heros of some underculture, but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals"
- Don Delillo

"What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”
- Liz Carpenter

"I lived to write and wrote to live"
- Samuel Rogers

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”
- Winston Churchill

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
- E.L. Doctorow

"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.”
- Terry Southern

“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it”
- Octavia Butler

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
- Moliere

“Writing only leads to more writing.”
- Sidonie Gabrielle

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
- Lewis Caroll