writing

“Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.” ~ Toni Morrison

“If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.”

~ Dan Poynter

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

~ Sylvia Plath

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~ Cyril Connolly

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

~ Anton Chekov

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that’s the only way you can do anything really good. ~ William Faulkner

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write. ~ W. Somerset Maughaj

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.” ~ William Faulkner

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” William Wordsworth