"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it" ~Anaïs Nin

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

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop." ~Vita Sackville-West

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." ~Mark Twain

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Just a few of my favorite quotes...hope you enjoy them, as well as whatever work my mind creates. Thank you to the loyal followers of my fanfics, you are a large part of the reason I continue to share my words with the world. Beautiful women own 3/4 of my heart...writing seems to fill the void in the remaining section. I am a wife, mother, teacher, and writer. Love me...hate me...but please respect me, as I respect all of you.