“Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science, poetry or describing a journey, accuracy is all you can do. Saying it as you saw.”— Ruth Padel
“You’ll find more emotions of words in those crumpled & rolled papers thrown in the dustbin than the edited script you jolted down last night in your folder. More splashes of paints lay scattered around your drawing paint-plate, the brushes equally messed up with their romance with the colours before the actual finishing of a fine portrait. Your draft box breathes more words than the real, grammatically -groomed post on your blog. The room smells more of the combined samples of vividly used tropical, musky, floral essences mixed in different ratios to get the exotic cologne at the end.Gist is spending that extra cent to obtain a perfect blend. That extra counts to the journey of a masterpiece which later finds itself an identity of an extra-ordinary creation.You’re that ‘extra’ to me who glorifies my existence and makes me feel like a clone-sister of masterpiece or rather a mistress-piece!!!? – Shonali Dey (Shon Alley)”— Shonali Dey
“Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.”— Chris Campanioni
“Literature and film in my opinion are like saloons where bottles have no labels. I want to taste each one myself and figure out which is what. If I’m denied this by labelling, then my entertainment is considerably lessened.”— Saadat Hasan Manto
“Obsession is like a pretty, little, picket fence that offers itself up as a thin line–a separation between ingenuity and insanity.”— S. D. Lawendowski
“Creativity is always a leap of faith. Writers sit down in front of empty pages. Painters stare before blank easels. Thespians rehearse looking toward empty stages. Creativity is experimental by nature.”— Brian D’Ambrosio
“Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.”— Shannon L. Alder