During the last year, I've learned so much about the fun, frustrating, unpredictable life of the person who loves writing, the person who is compelled to write, and the person who writes for a living. I'd like to briefly share some of that wisdom with you!
"Writers aren't people exactly. Or if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon
"In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world." ~ Stephen King
"Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself that you don't want to, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it." ~ Hugh Jackman
"There are writers who write because they cannot help it. They must write as they must breathe." ~ Annie Proulx
"Without the dark parts told honestly, it's really hard to appreciate the other." ~ Philip Gerard
"Everybody's got a story, but not all of them are true." ~ Charles LeDuff
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write." ~ Saul Bellow
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." ~ Anton Checkov
"Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer." ~ Susan Sontag
"We are educated so we can say out-loud what other people are afraid to say, and we write for the same reason." ~ Sonia Sanchez
"The best writing is re-writing." ~ E.B. White
"A good writing day ought to be simply any day you worked." ~ Richard Bausch
"Writers aren't people exactly. Or if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon
"In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world." ~ Stephen King
"Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself that you don't want to, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it." ~ Hugh Jackman
"There are writers who write because they cannot help it. They must write as they must breathe." ~ Annie Proulx
"Without the dark parts told honestly, it's really hard to appreciate the other." ~ Philip Gerard
"Everybody's got a story, but not all of them are true." ~ Charles LeDuff
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write." ~ Saul Bellow
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." ~ Anton Checkov
"Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer." ~ Susan Sontag
"We are educated so we can say out-loud what other people are afraid to say, and we write for the same reason." ~ Sonia Sanchez
"A good writing day ought to be simply any day you worked." ~ Richard Bausch
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