My Favorite Quotes About the Art of Writing
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
~ Natalie Goldberg
"I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember."
~Ellen Glasgow
What no wife/husband of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he/she's staring out the window.
~Rudolph Erich Rascoe
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
~ Franklin P. Adams
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing.The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
~Margaret Atwood
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in a human situation.
~ Graham Greene
You are going to have to give and give and give, or there is no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward.
~Anne Lamott ~ Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Think of all the other writers out there in the world, taking the same detour from word processor to coffeepot, thesaurus in hand, hopes in tow. We’re all in it together, crossing over and over the elusive bridge between words and literature.
~ Abby Frucht
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~ Albert Einstein
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