There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

― Maya Angelou

“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.”

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

― Stephen King

“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

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

― Lloyd Alexander

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

― Neil Gaiman

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

― Isaac Asimov

“You can make anything by writing.”

― C.S. Lewis

"Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”

― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

“Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”

― Meg Cabot

My Quote

" Before I started to write I had no voice. I always let people pick for me. I could never yell my real feelings out. I felt as if I had not value on this plant. When I start to type on my key board and write I start to understand and laugh at how I had felt earlier. When I write first started to write it was the first time I have ever hear my real voice. Which is why writing to me is like a reflection in a mirror. it shows me what I really look like and who I really am."

- Sophia Baddock/ Jane Elliot/ Gretchen Paxton or A.K.A me ( those are just my pen names.)