"Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job."
– Jeanette Winterson
15 Quotes From Women Writers Who Shake Things Up
"One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read."
– Suzanne Collins
"To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
– Anne Rice
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."
– Gloria Steinem
"Every moment is beautiful; delicious even!"
– Alicia Keys
"Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. I didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness."
– Janelle Monae
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
– Coretta Scott King
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
– Jane Austen
"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think."
– Harper Lee
"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."
– Margaret Atwood
"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart."
– Maya Angelou
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."
– J.K. Rowling
"Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us."
– Alice Walker
"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."
– Anne Frank
"Wherever you go, you meet part of your story."
– Eudora Welty
